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Hi all, do we have a list or something of engines which were written off from accidental damage rather than just plain scrapped?

 

I am particularly interested in the pre tops and corporate blue eras.

 

I know there was one written due to an accident down south which i wrote an article about, forgot the name of the accident too!!!

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There is a graph available on Class47.co.uk that shows Class 47s scrapped by year. If you hover over the purple graph bars, the cursor information shows you which locos were scrapped during that year.

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I know there was one written due to an accident down south which i wrote an article about, forgot the name of the accident too!!!

Good lad. That's no doubt 1562 that Stratford in their infinite wisdom decided to uprate. The circumstances surrounding the 'experiment' perpetrated on the Brush are shrouded in myth and conspiracy, but suffice to say she exploded at Haughley Jct blowing the engine room door off its hinges and breaking the arm of driver Harry Hendry.

 

This has become something of a high altar bit of 47 folklore, as photos of her following the accident are scarce to say the least. Needless to say she was cut up amid supposed secrecy. It was discussed in some detail on here earlier this year.

 

Then wasn't 1908 written off at Monmore Green, Wolverhampton?

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Good lad. That's no doubt 1562 that Stratford in their infinite wisdom decided to uprate. The circumstances surrounding the 'experiment' perpetrated on the Brush are shrouded in myth and conspiracy, but suffice to say she exploded at Haughley Jct blowing the engine room door off its hinges and breaking the arm of driver Harry Hendry.

 

This has become something of a high altar bit of 47 folklore, as photos of her following the accident are scarce to say the least. Needless to say she was cut up amid supposed secrecy. It was discussed in some detail on here earlier this year.

 

Then wasn't 1908 written off at Monmore Green, Wolverhampton?

 

 

1908 was written off at Monmore Green, however parts from her were used in the conversion of Class 48 D1702 to Class 47 specification in 1969. D1702 which became 47114 was the last of the former Class 48s to be withdrawn almost certainly because alone it was converted to the all parallel wiring of traction motors rather than the series-parallel of the other 4.

 

As for 1562 the damage was immense, nearly a six figure sum at 1971 prices.

 

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Simon

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47202 was involved in a collision with 33032 at Frome early in 1987.

 

Prior to cutting up, the loco was stored at Bath Road with its number painted out. I only managed this photograph.post-4474-0-34867600-1377080567_thumb.jpg

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Off-topic, but the EMU driver at Monmore Green was Driver W A West of Coventry. At the Stechford crash two years earlier Driver West was at the controls of a Down EMU standing in the station when the accident happened, the derailed train stopping about 50 yards in front of him. Whilst checking some details of the Stechford accident I found a press cutting of an earlier accident where a DMU was hit there by a Holyhead-London freight. The name of the DMU driver was given as W West.

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The first TOPS no withdrawal was 47208 which was an accident damage write off.

 

Wasn't that the one in Scotland where there are still a few mysteries surrounding why the loco was travelling so fast?

 

The biggest urban myth (or is it true?) about that accident was at least one of the carriages ended up over the sea wall and on the rocks.

 

(The story goes:- Rescuers managed to free all but one of the trapped victims before the tide came in, but this poor soul was jammed under the wreckage so they handed him a gun in order to save him from a slow drowning).

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Wasn't that the one in Scotland where there are still a few mysteries surrounding why the loco was travelling so fast?

 

The biggest urban myth (or is it true?) about that accident was at least one of the carriages ended up over the sea wall and on the rocks.

 

(The story goes:- Rescuers managed to free all but one of the trapped victims before the tide came in, but this poor soul was jammed under the wreckage so they handed him a gun in order to save him from a slow drowning).

I think that one involved a failed class 25 in the section ahead. The 47 and train inexplicably passed the section signal at danger and then a collision was inevitable. At the enquiry there was apparently some suggestion that the signal concerned was not quite at a horizontal angle having been returned to danger once the 25 and its train had passed.

 

Another 47 crash IIRC involved an excursion, (possibly from Margate?), where the driver consumed alcohol prior to driving and took a corner too fast resulting in a serious derailment.

 

Again, I'm being a bit vague as it's a long time since I read the reports.

 

Cheers.

 

Sean.

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