- New page; Bedford-Nuneaton AC drags, some interesting workings from the early 90s, which has on it the following five photographs;
11/01/10
Updated, with notes added below photos and a couple of additional images added, are;
April 2002
July 2002
August 2002
Tidied also are;
1985
1986
1987
1988
(already tidied were;)
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
New NEWS archive pages;
Oct 2009
Nov 2009
Dec 2009
These have been created from the Blogspot pages, to enable a month per view archive as per previous news pages. The Blogspot page just shows one week per view at the moment, and it can't be guaranteed that those will stand the test of time.14/12/09
A few archive photos previously shown here have been moved to their relevant archive pages, these include photos from;
1963 (1) - new page
1964 (3)
1966 (1) - new page
1978 (2) - new page
1985 (1)
1988 (3)
1996 (2)
1998 (3)
1999 (6)
Photo's still remaining on the page below are those that have not yet been shown on the news page, and some from post 1999.11/11/09
17/11/91: 47351 at Brookwood. Photo Copyright: Crumb
19/11/91: 47017 at Tinsley. Photo Copyright: Crumb
20/04/86: 47648 on display at Crewe Works, this was later 47850. Photo Copyright: Dave Pedley
30/01/92: 47704 at Salisbury with 1L18 1515 Salisbury-Waterloo. Photo Copyright: Crumb
07/06/92: 47711 at Working, departing on the 1454 Plymouth-Waterloo which it had worked from Exeter St Davids. Photo Copyright: Crumb
12/06/92: 47219 at Woking on 1O30 0642 Yeovil-Waterloo. Photo Copyright: Crumb
12/06/92: 219 after arriving at Waterloo on 1O30 0642 from Yeovil. Photo Copyright: Crumb
12/06/92: 219 then worked 1L05 1000 Waterloo-Salisbury, seen at the destination. Photo Copyright: Crumb
13/06/92: 47299 at Norwich with the 0946 Great Yarmouth-Sheffield. Photo Copyright: Crumb
26/07/92: 47060 at Honiton on 1O37 1228 Exeter St Davids to London Waterloo, which it worked as far as Salisbury. Photo Copyright: Crumb
26/07/92: 060 was replaced at Salisbury by 47363! 363 was seen above at Woking, on 1O37. Photo Copyright: Crumb
09/09/92: 47142 at Templecombe on 1O35 0945 Exeter-Waterloo. Photo Copyright: Crumb
09/09/92: 47142 was removed here at Salisbury from 1O35 for 47711 forward to Waterloo. Photo Copyright: Crumb
28/10/92: 47449 at Waterloo before the 0835 Waterloo-Exeter, 1V09. Photo Copyright: Crumb
29/10/92: 47702 at Salisbury on 1V09 again. Photo Copyright: Crumb
25/01/93: 47717 at Yeovil on 1V09 0835 Waterloo-Exeter. Photo Copyright: Crumb
10/02/93: 47717 at Exeter St Davids after working 1V09 0835 Waterloo-Exeter. Photo Copyright: Crumb
20/02/93: 47631 with 1L01 1015 Waterloo-Salisbury at Woking. Photo Copyright: Crumb
26/01/97: 47315 with an engineers train at Marks Tey. Photo Copyright: Chris Finch
25/06/01 - 47810 stands at Penzance before hauling 1A45 0820 Penzance-Paddington. Photo Copyright: Richard Boyd
25/06/01 - 47810 on the same working, 1A45, seen from Langstone Rock. Photo Copyright: Steve Goodrum
25/06/01 - Returning from London on 1C56 1633 Paddington-Penzance, seen stopping off at Tiverton Parkway. Photo Copyright: Steve Goodrum
26/06/01 - The next day it worked 1A45 again (though returned four hours later in the day on 1C90 rather than 1C56), passing through Dawlish heading for London. Photo Copyright: Steve Goodrum
25/03/02: 47832 passes the former Grafton East Junction on 1A45 0820 Penzance-Paddington.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
18/04/03: 47798 stands at Holyhead before working 1K73 1549 Holyhead-Crewe. Engineering work was affecting proceedings on this day, all the following workings ran only between Crewe and Holyhead - 798 had already worked 1G76 0140 Holyhead-Birmingham, 1D57 0522 return, 1G96 0852 Holyhead-Birmingham and 1D71 1221 Birmingham to Holyhead and would later work 1D81 1818 Crewe-Chester and then ECS to Holyhead. On the same day working for First North Western were 47734 which had 47770 dead in tow on 1H44 0633 Bangor to Manchester, 47789 worked 1G95 0648 Holyhead-BNS/ 1D67 1021 BNS-Holyhead/ 1G11 1400 Holyhead-BNS/ 1D82 1721 BNS-Holyhead. 47770 later worked 1D45 1719 Manchester-Holyhead alone.
Photo Copyright: Richard Boyd
Stuff that was here before that has been moved to its rightful place (updated 20/04):
NSE Waterloo-Exeter1989 photo's
1990 photo's
1991 photo's
1992 photo's
1993 photo's
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15/02/10
07/03 photo page restored.
Jan 2010 news archive page created.
The following photo's have been on The Class 47 List news page during the past four weeks and are waiting to be moved to archive pages;
1964: D1733 at Birmingham Snow Hill, taken after 20th June 1964, but possibly in July or August of that year not too long after entering service in XP64 colours and still with BR logo on a red background. Brian Morrison's 'Profile of the 47s' book from 1987 has an image of 47853 without BR logos taken on 2nd May 1965, this is the earliest photo with a confirmed date that has been found of the loco without BR logos - though some reports say they were removed after the initial press runs. Evidently the logos lasted a bit longer, as here it can be seen that the white tyres which it had when painted have faded somewhat. The weathered appearance of the loco however is caused by this being from an old negative.
Photo Copyright: Charles Steele
27/03/85: 47159 passing Branksome hauling that morning's 6O33 0115 Aberthaw-Hamworthy.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
10/08/85: 47614 (47853) at Edinburgh Waverley on an unknown working.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
31/08/85: 47288 at Goose Hill Junction, near Normanton, working 1E05 0740 Leicester-Scarborough.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
01/03/86: An unknown working, but during a day of diversions, this is 47484 at Bordesley Junction on the line from Derby to Kings Norton, diverted via Lifford Curve before Kings Norton to head back into Birmingham New Street station. Alan Marshall posted in the news page comments section; "This was during a 5-week period of planned diversions during renewal of the bridge at Proof House Junction, near Birmingham New Street. Kings Norton became the main interchange for Birmingham passengers using Cross Country services." Any further info from this day is of course welcome for contribution.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
16/06/86: 47270 at Copmanthorpe heading northboud, possibly having come from Liverpool. This area now has AC electrification, and 270 in preservation (and back on the mainline of course) has had a headcode box cut into the newer cab front that can be seen in this view.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
27/06/87: 47549 passes Kinterbury on the Berks & Hants route heading towards London Paddington on what was a Saturday. This unknown working was thought to have been covering for a class 50 judging by the air-con stock, but all vehicles except the brake vehicle at the rear are first class carriages, so being a Saturday this could be a charter. A look at sixbellsjunction.co.uk reveals there was a High Wycombe-Bournemouth charter using 'at least 47466' on this day though this would be a little off route for that. Any suggestions to sulzerpower@yahoo.co.uk
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
xx/02/88: An image of 47542 at Glasgow Central, waiting to depart on what was likely to have been a Carlisle service via the G+SW route. 47542 and 47456 were chosen for an air management scheme trial in 1985 and in January of that year both locos were noted as having had their No. 1 end bodyside windows converted from windows to grilles. By October 1985 the No. 2 end bodyside windows on 47542 (this end in the image above) were again replaced with grilles. In July 1986 both bodyside engine room doors were fitted with two grilles as part of a further air management trial. It is thought that the extra grilles, which can just about be seen in this image, had little or no affect on air flow within the loco but no official conclusion is known about. And thus by December 1988 47542 was noted as having standard bodyside doors, possibly off a scrapper at Eastfield. 47456 on the other hand took no further part in the trial.
Loco notes are from Nigel47417, a co-author of the Class 47 Data Files which are available to purchase by clicking here. The newest of which follows D1520 to D1549 (47001-016/421-47434) through their careers. Also thanks to Chicken.
The Class 47 List archive for February 1988 has the following workings listed for 542;
12/02/88 - 1C67 0730 Aberdeen-Carstairs.
15/02/88 - 1C67 0730 Aberdeen-Carstairs to Edinburgh?
19/02/88 - 1V59 0720 Glasgow C-Penzance from Birmingham New Street? (more likely to be 'to' New Street)
23/02/88 - 1H25 0740 Aberdeen-Inverness and then with 47643 on 1T30 1225 Inverness-Glasgow QS (tandem?).
Photo Copyright: David Lacy
18/03/89: This was a day of diversions over the Settle & Carlisle, though this was a Carlisle-Leeds train, with 47413 hauling it and seen at Baron Wood on the S&C. 413 was seen calling at Appleby heading north at 1035 and south again at 1330.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
03/05/89: 47550 in May 1989, departing Forres on 1A50 1200 Inverness-Aberdeen whilst still in large logo livery.
Photo Copyright: Roddy MacPhee
02/06/89: 47540 at White Waltham between Maidenhead and Twyford on an evening working, possibly the 1755 Paddington-Westbury?
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
22/08/89: Three and a half months later than the large logo view of the loco, here is 'University of Dundee' 47550 in a fresh coat of paint seen at Allanfearn after leaving Inverness on 6H11 1115 Inverness-Burghea.
Photo Copyright: Roddy MacPhee
15/09/90: 47528 runs round its train at Reading, which was forming 1O10 0738 York-Poole. 47605 is on the right.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
25/09/90: In a world (outside of NSE or PTE areas) of bland colours, the appearance of the new parcels livery was quite stunning. 47559 'Sir Joshua Reynolds' was seen above at Reading on a parcels train heading for London. In the archive pages, 559 is listed as working 1F52 1808 Paddington-Oxford on Thursday 27th September 1990, but no other passenger workings are known for that week. Parcels livery was last carried by 47575 in 2009, but this was painted out of the livery before the 20th anniversary of the first red+grey 47. The successor to the design, the Res livery, is still carried by 47492 to an extent and fully on 524, 707, 716, 746, 761, 765, 770, 771, 772 and 776.
Photo Copyright: David Lacy
18/07/92: 47049 departs Derby with 1E95 0946 Great Yarmouth-Sheffield which it had worked from Norwich. 47194 had worked the train in to Norwich, 194 later continuing with 1M03 1034 Great Yarmouth-Birmingham New Street from Norwich.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
13/08/92: 47270 at Sherbourne on 1V15 1515 Waterloo-Exeter. Photo Copyright: Crumb
04/03/93: 47840 looking a bit lost and unusually at Woking on 1V15 1515 Waterloo-Exeter. No other workings are known for the loco on that date.
Photo Copyright: Crumb
11/10/93: 47975 at Crewe on a test working. The loco survives in the same Civil Engineers colours, in fact it's the sole 47 now carrying the livery, with its previous number of 47540 and is in a poor external condition at Leeming Bar. During its time as a 47/9 it was also fitted with green circle multiple working sockets as can be seen here, though not in the same position as fitted to the freight 47/0 and 47/3s.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
08/03/95: 47744 before its naming ceremony where it was named Saint Edwin, at Leeds - which has changed quite a bit since. 744 still survives, in EWS colours at Barrow Hill, owned by Nemesis Rail. EWS livery is also still carried by preserved 47785 and 47793 and Riviera's stored 47747.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
24/02/97: Freightliner's 47302 seen at Doncaster, next to a selection of stored class 141s.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
02/02/98: A lesser mentioned 'celebrity' repaint, in these days at least, is 47519 - seen escaping from Twerton Tunnel working 4V60 Calvert to Bristol/Bath working. 519 survived in traffic another year before being dumped in the sidings at the former Crewe Diesel Depot for several years.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
10/09/98: 47204 became the 12th of 33 Brush Type 4 bodyshells to be re-worked with GM engines, becoming 57012 which has been partnering 47501 on the Workington-Maryport shuttles all week (47 photo's now added to the photo page). Possibly its final passenger working with a Sulzer power unit was this train, the 09xx Holyhead-Euston which it hauled from Holyhead to Crewe after running light to Holyhead from Crewe during the night. 47847 was the culprit in tow which required assistance. Did 47204 work any other passenger trains after this, or around this time?
Photo Copyright: GGC
22/01/10
Restored, previously intended to move many years ago to fotopic but now back on sulzerpower.com and annotated;
01/03 pics,
02/03 pics,
03/03 pics,
04/03 pics,
05/03 pics,
06/03 pics.
1964: D1733 at Birmingham Snow Hill, taken after 20th June 1964, but possibly in July or August of that year not too long after entering service in XP64 colours and still with BR logo on a red background. Brian Morrison's 'Profile of the 47s' book from 1987 has an image of 47853 without BR logos taken on 2nd May 1965, this is the earliest photo with a confirmed date that has been found of the loco without BR logos - though some reports say they were removed after the initial press runs. Evidently the logos lasted a bit longer, as here it can be seen that the white tyres which it had when painted have faded somewhat. The weathered appearance of the loco however is caused by this being from an old negative.
Photo Copyright: Charles Steele
27/03/85: 47159 passing Branksome hauling that morning's 6O33 0115 Aberthaw-Hamworthy.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
10/08/85: 47614 (47853) at Edinburgh Waverley on an unknown working.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
31/08/85: 47288 at Goose Hill Junction, near Normanton, working 1E05 0740 Leicester-Scarborough.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
01/03/86: An unknown working, but during a day of diversions, this is 47484 at Bordesley Junction on the line from Derby to Kings Norton, diverted via Lifford Curve before Kings Norton to head back into Birmingham New Street station. Alan Marshall posted in the news page comments section; "This was during a 5-week period of planned diversions during renewal of the bridge at Proof House Junction, near Birmingham New Street. Kings Norton became the main interchange for Birmingham passengers using Cross Country services." Any further info from this day is of course welcome for contribution.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
16/06/86: 47270 at Copmanthorpe heading northboud, possibly having come from Liverpool. This area now has AC electrification, and 270 in preservation (and back on the mainline of course) has had a headcode box cut into the newer cab front that can be seen in this view.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
27/06/87: 47549 passes Kinterbury on the Berks & Hants route heading towards London Paddington on what was a Saturday. This unknown working was thought to have been covering for a class 50 judging by the air-con stock, but all vehicles except the brake vehicle at the rear are first class carriages, so being a Saturday this could be a charter. A look at sixbellsjunction.co.uk reveals there was a High Wycombe-Bournemouth charter using 'at least 47466' on this day though this would be a little off route for that. Any suggestions to sulzerpower@yahoo.co.uk
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
xx/02/88: An image of 47542 at Glasgow Central, waiting to depart on what was likely to have been a Carlisle service via the G+SW route. 47542 and 47456 were chosen for an air management scheme trial in 1985 and in January of that year both locos were noted as having had their No. 1 end bodyside windows converted from windows to grilles. By October 1985 the No. 2 end bodyside windows on 47542 (this end in the image above) were again replaced with grilles. In July 1986 both bodyside engine room doors were fitted with two grilles as part of a further air management trial. It is thought that the extra grilles, which can just about be seen in this image, had little or no affect on air flow within the loco but no official conclusion is known about. And thus by December 1988 47542 was noted as having standard bodyside doors, possibly off a scrapper at Eastfield. 47456 on the other hand took no further part in the trial. Loco notes are from Nigel47417, a co-author of the Class 47 Data Files which are available to purchase by clicking here. The newest of which follows D1520 to D1549 (47001-016/421-47434) through their careers. Also thanks to Chicken.
The Class 47 List archive for February 1988 has the following workings listed for 542;
12/02/88 - 1C67 0730 Aberdeen-Carstairs.
15/02/88 - 1C67 0730 Aberdeen-Carstairs to Edinburgh?
19/02/88 - 1V59 0720 Glasgow C-Penzance from Birmingham New Street? (more likely to be 'to' New Street)
23/02/88 - 1H25 0740 Aberdeen-Inverness and then with 47643 on 1T30 1225 Inverness-Glasgow QS (tandem?).
Photo Copyright: David Lacy
18/03/89: This was a day of diversions over the Settle & Carlisle, though this was a Carlisle-Leeds train, with 47413 hauling it and seen at Baron Wood on the S&C. 413 was seen calling at Appleby heading north at 1035 and south again at 1330.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
03/05/89: 47550 in May 1989, departing Forres on 1A50 1200 Inverness-Aberdeen whilst still in large logo livery.
Photo Copyright: Roddy MacPhee
02/06/89: 47540 at White Waltham between Maidenhead and Twyford on an evening working, possibly the 1755 Paddington-Westbury?
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
22/08/89: Three and a half months later than the large logo view of the loco, here is 'University of Dundee' 47550 in a fresh coat of paint seen at Allanfearn after leaving Inverness on 6H11 1115 Inverness-Burghea.
Photo Copyright: Roddy MacPhee
15/09/90: 47528 runs round its train at Reading, which was forming 1O10 0738 York-Poole. 47605 is on the right.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
25/09/90: In a world (outside of NSE or PTE areas) of bland colours, the appearance of the new parcels livery was quite stunning. 47559 'Sir Joshua Reynolds' was seen above at Reading on a parcels train heading for London. In the archive pages, 559 is listed as working 1F52 1808 Paddington-Oxford on Thursday 27th September 1990, but no other passenger workings are known for that week. Parcels livery was last carried by 47575 in 2009, but this was painted out of the livery before the 20th anniversary of the first red+grey 47. The successor to the design, the Res livery, is still carried by 47492 to an extent and fully on 524, 707, 716, 746, 761, 765, 770, 771, 772 and 776.
Photo Copyright: David Lacy
18/07/92: 47049 departs Derby with 1E95 0946 Great Yarmouth-Sheffield which it had worked from Norwich. 47194 had worked the train in to Norwich, 194 later continuing with 1M03 1034 Great Yarmouth-Birmingham New Street from Norwich.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
13/08/92: 47270 at Sherbourne on 1V15 1515 Waterloo-Exeter. Photo Copyright: Crumb
04/03/93: 47840 looking a bit lost and unusually at Woking on 1V15 1515 Waterloo-Exeter. No other workings are known for the loco on that date.
Photo Copyright: Crumb
11/10/93: 47975 at Crewe on a test working. The loco survives in the same Civil Engineers colours, in fact it's the sole 47 now carrying the livery, with its previous number of 47540 and is in a poor external condition at Leeming Bar. During its time as a 47/9 it was also fitted with green circle multiple working sockets as can be seen here, though not in the same position as fitted to the freight 47/0 and 47/3s.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
08/03/95: 47744 before its naming ceremony where it was named Saint Edwin, at Leeds - which has changed quite a bit since. 744 still survives, in EWS colours at Barrow Hill, owned by Nemesis Rail. EWS livery is also still carried by preserved 47785 and 47793 and Riviera's stored 47747.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
24/02/97: Freightliner's 47302 seen at Doncaster, next to a selection of stored class 141s.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
02/02/98: A lesser mentioned 'celebrity' repaint, in these days at least, is 47519 - seen escaping from Twerton Tunnel working 4V60 Calvert to Bristol/Bath working. 519 survived in traffic another year before being dumped in the sidings at the former Crewe Diesel Depot for several years.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
10/09/98: 47204 became the 12th of 33 Brush Type 4 bodyshells to be re-worked with GM engines, becoming 57012 which has been partnering 47501 on the Workington-Maryport shuttles all week (47 photo's now added to the photo page). Possibly its final passenger working with a Sulzer power unit was this train, the 09xx Holyhead-Euston which it hauled from Holyhead to Crewe after running light to Holyhead from Crewe during the night. 47847 was the culprit in tow which required assistance. Did 47204 work any other passenger trains after this, or around this time?
Photo Copyright: GGC