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Aylesbury has never really been a class 47 hotspot as far as i know, but with impressive headboard heres 47805 deputising for a 66 on the blue bins from Ripple Lane to Calvert on July 8th 2003

 

NR

 

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Hi John, Thanks for uploading, I always get side tracked with the other photographs you put on flickr, also the info you put on about the locomotive is really useful and very interesting.

SGJ

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Hi John, Thanks for uploading, I always get side tracked with the other photographs you put on flickr, also the info you put on about the locomotive is really useful and very interesting.

SGJ

 

 

Thanks for all the great pictures posted Johnw a great time capsule for 47`s, but also you see the date on some and suddenly a host of memories flood back too one self.

 

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Thanks for your kind comments Gents

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Here are a few Class 47 photos I took in the mid 1960s with my old Ilford Sportsman camera

 

A few days old, brand new Brush Type 4 D1525, later to be renumbered as Class 47/4 47422, stands in the shed yard at Gateshead on 23 June 1963. Withdrawn in August 1991 it was cut up by Booth-Roe Metals, Rotherham in June i993

 

A few months old, Brush Type 4 No. D1795, later to be renumbered as Class 47/3 47314, stands at Darlington Shed in April 1965. Withdrawn in February 2007 it was cut up by European Metal Rec Kinbry in April 2008

 

New Brush Type 4 No. D1518 at Gateshead shed 7 weeks after being built on 21st July 1963. Later to be renumbered as Class 47 47419. The loco was withdrawn on 11 February 1987 from Gateshead shed GD and cut up by V Berry Leicester in January 1990

A few weeks old, Brush Type 4 No. D1520 at Gateshead shed on a damp overcast day on 21st July 1963, a few weeks weeks after being built. Later to be renumbered as Class 47 47421. The loco was withdrawn on 27 September 1991, reinstated on March 1994 and finally withdrawn in May 1994 and cut up by by MRJ Phillips at Crewe works in March 1997

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Post some up on here if you want Jack :no:  :locomotive:

Oh go on then.... just for you Neil :P...... (These will be uploaded to my gallery soon...) :

Ex-Freightliner 47830 At Barrow Hill Roundhouse

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DRS 47791 at BH too...

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West Coast Railways 47760 at Preston...

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Just noticed....My 100th post!......time flies.....

 

Jack.

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