ppatch

Hi there, welcome to RMweb. 

 

The quick answer to your question is yes, and we have indeed had this 'debate' before on here. Please see this post and a the following few posts (made on this thread no less) here. Unfortunately the conversation about copyright became a bit fractious and so the image was taken down, but rest assured it very much showed 4707 in G-Crest-W livery. 

 

It is also believed that there were 47xx's running around in the immediate post-war period in G-W-R livery too, so it's a reason to snap up more than one Night Owl!

 

Cheers,

 

CoY

Thank you for your reply - that is helpful!  SO a good excuse for 4 Night Owls then (all the GWR liveries) unless they do a black one, so then I will need 5!

Dave

Hello all, I've just joined the site, so apologies if this has already been mentioned earlier.

Did the 47xx actually run with the Hawksworth G crest W livery in GWR days, as I thought it was reserved for express passenger engines, which this loco doesn't seem to have been until after nationalisation?