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D1504 • • •
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Built :: Brush Falcon Works
Pilot Order :: February 28th 1961
Works Number :: 346
To traffic :: January 3rd 1963 |
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CURRENT STATUS • • •
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SCRAPPED
Cut-up :: A Hampton at ZC :: December 1988
Depot :: GD
Livery :: BR Blue (standard) |
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NUMBERS • • •
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D1504 :: January 3rd 1963
47405 :: February 1974 |
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NAMES • • •
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47405
:: The Geordie
:: Never carried; planned naming switched to
47403. | 47405
:: Northumbria
:: At Newcastle Central station by Councillor Kenny Deas, Chairman of the Northumbria Tourist Board. October 28th 1982
:: Plates removed in March 1986.
:: Name later transferred to
47526. |
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HISTORY • • •
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| | | 01/63 | D1504
New to 34G | | 01/63 | Actually arrived at 34G on the 9th, worked first train on the 15th. | | 11/67 | to 40B | | 08/69 | to 34G | | 05/73 | to FP |
| | 02/74 | 47405 | | 08/79 | to GD | | | | 03/86 | This was the 6th Class 47 loco to be withdrawn, and became the first to be withdrawn for a reason other than being damaged 'beyond economical repair'. In 1986 BR decided upon a planned run-down of the class starting with the older 'Generators', which were considered to be 'non-standard' and costly to keep running. 47405 had suffered a number of failures and was finally moved from Gateshead TMD to Crewe Works for parts stripping and, ultimately - cutting-up.
| | 03/86 | allocated to GD and withdrawn Withdrawn | | | | 12/88 | disposal by A Hampton at Crewe works |
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