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A couple of my recent Flickr uploads.....

 

47484 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel' at Hayes & Harlington on 26 February 1977

 

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and a couple of months later 47256 at Abergaveny

 

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On 10th May 2016 The Cathedrals Express, 1Z62 0725 London Kings Cross to Newcastle, was hauled by a brace of 47s as far as York.  60103 Flying Scotsman was scheduled to take over for the remainder of the journey to Newcastle.

 

The locomotive change took place in Holgate Sidings, which are adjacent to the East Coast Main Line just south of York station for those unfamiliar with the track layout of the area.

 

Try and get a railtour to be timetabled to use that track and NR would probably say no.

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Another sunny Saturday afternoon in February 1989 at West Ealing.

 

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Railfreight liveried 47350  working what was most likely the 4O89 15.06 SO Ripple Lane FLT to Southampton Maritime Container Terminal.

 

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47320 catches the late evening winter sun as it passes West Ealing with the empty 6V84 SO Salfords to Westbury.

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A few ones from me (if I can remember when and where...)  :O All pics are 1988/89.

 

No idea which duff, but it's definitely at Penzance...

 

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Another unidentified IC duff (but it's a different one, just look at the bufferbeams..) at Penzance again.

 

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Ohhh, guess where!!?? 47 547 in revised NSE livery with a parcels service.

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Let's head north for a change. Manchester Piccadilly and 47 448 in large logo livery, departing from platform 13/14.

 

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Quickly followed by 47 439, again in large logo livery with a 'liner train from Trafford Park.

 

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And lastly, heading into the hills its 47 594 and 438 trying to break the class 37 monopoly at Buxton. Nice try lads...

 

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Digging around has found me three more. Well, two more and one that is sort of, well...

 

Again all pics are 1988-91

 

47 214 on stands and minus bogies at a Crewe works open day. I actually went for an interview there to become an apprentice. The fact that I arrived late and then told the interviewer that "I liked trains" saw me following a different career path for the next 27 years... :whistle:

 

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At the same open day, its a green duff this time. Any ideas why it was repainted? An early preservation candidate?

 

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And for those of you who like your train pictures with more sky and boats than trains, it's an unidentified 47 at Evesham. I only know it's at Evesham because a) I remember we had a canal boating holiday that started there and b) it says it on the big blue boat....

 

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D1842 is preserved at Crewe Heritage Centre - hence the green livery. Its been preserved since circa early 1989 as a replacement for 47001.

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A couple from Kings Cross in the summer of 1994. I was doing my work experience at the time, spending a week at the British Library. Being close to Kings Cross, I took the opportunity to see what was there.

 

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I am sure I have the numbers of these two jotted down somewhere, but I'll never link whatever scribblings I have to these. 

 

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47520 keeps 90017 company at Kings Cross

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