coachmann Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Just looked through a box of 10 X 8's and the last 47 I photographed in two-tone green was 47367 working an extra Boat Train for Holyhead on 20th August 1977. I'm looking through my diaries for a plain green 47 repaint! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Saxton Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I seem to remember one or more 47s were repainted all over dark green to use up paint. (The ligher green wasn't applied). I photographed one of the last 47 remaining in green in the late 1970's at Llandudno Junction. As regards rail blue, I gave them a second glance but that was all, usually because they were ex-works. I took up railway photography again as a relaxation in the 1970's only to realize how much I had missed since loosing interest in 1965. It came as a shock to discover the hydraulics had gone as it never entered my head BR would be withdrawing D i e s e l s... Just 47256 as far as is known. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Saxton Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Just looked through a box of 10 X 8's and the last 47 I photographed in two-tone green was 47367 working an extra Boat Train for Holyhead on 20th August 1977. I'm looking through my diaries for a plain green 47 repaint! You'll only find 47256 I think but even so photos of it are very rare, in 30 years I have only seen one. I have umpteen of it as a two tone green one before I get beseiged! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertcwp Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Here's one of the first Hymeks to go blue: D7007_BBR_23-12-66 by robertcwp, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted February 26, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2015 How about a bit of blue and a bit of green? 20 015 - amazing, http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/96474-2-tone-class-20polmadie/?p=1796819 Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 The Class 47 Preservation Project Archive has a photo of 47256 in Crewe works before it lost its all over green. The photo appears in the book Class 47 50 Years of Locomotive History. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Saxton Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I have a shot of it plain green too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john new Posted December 25, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 25, 2018 I appreciate this thread is mostly about 47s. However, one oddity I photgraphed in 1977 was one of York's scruffy 08s in green hauling a blue liveried A4 (Mallard) away from the York Stn Centenary exhibition. It was on the Monday of one of the May Bank Hols in that year but which one I can't remember, nor the 08s number. So even green diesels and blue steamers have a precedent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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