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04/02/83: An ECS at Preston hauled by 47430.
Copyright: Glenn Jones
19/02/83: 47041, with a tidy rebuilt front end here coincidentally, passes Chinley working in place of a class 40 with a Cleethorpes to Manchester via Sheffield Midland empty newspaper train. 41 ended up as 764 and finished service in 2001.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
27/02/83: 47158 at North Muskham heading from Peterborough to York. 158 had worked 1G60 0920 Peterborough-York as far as Peterborough in connection with a Flying Scotsman hauled steam charter. 158 hauled the return throughout from York.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
15/03/83: 47242, probably not long before being fitted with electric train heating capability as 47659, seen at Bristol Bath Road in a variation of BR blue with large fleet number on the cab front and black window surrounds. It would carry a few livery variations in later life as 47814, large logo blue with no black window surrounds but with small fleet numbers, and very briefly when it was given 'XC' logos on its Virgin livery for the Totnes Castle naming. The bodyshell is still in existance today as a GM engined type 5.
Photo Copyright: John Lacy
30/04/83: 47552 descends the bank into Manchester Victoria working 1M58 0850 Scarborough to Liverpool Lime Street. Track on the right is now part of the Metrolink tram system.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
30/04/83: 47540 approaches Manchester Victoria, past the former Manchester Exchange, working 1E99 1305 Liverpool Lime Street to Scarborough. 540 of course survives, as previously mentioned it is the last 47 in the Civil Engineers livery.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
21/05/83: 47509 'Albion' near Eccles (after Ordsall Lane) heading for Liverpool, with a train likely to be from Newcastle.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
28/05/83: 47171 at Crewe Works stripped down for a heavy overhaul during its conversion to 47592, shortly after which it was named 'County of Avon'. Although the headcode panel seen here has flat marker light lenses this is actually the number 2 end cab. The lenses here would very shortly be replaced with hinged versions before it returned to service as part of a cab modification to all 47s at the number 2 end of the locomotive which had begun a month earlier in April 1983. This loco would later become 47738 and it is this number 2 cab seen here which survives at Plymouth. Both ends of 47738 received oval buffers.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
28/05/83: A pair of 47/4s - both with the number 1 end cabs at this end. At sole-bar level both are the same, but the comparison is with cab fronts. 582 on the right has the late 70s style headcode cover arrangement, whilst 521 has a flush front. 582 carries some minor damage here, a dented cab front hand-rail plus a broken middle lamp bracket and some damage to the skirting in the corner closest to the photographer.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
24/09/83: 47581 arriving at Norwich with a working from London Liverpool Street, obviously in the days before overhead wires. Copyright: Neil Walkling
08/10/83: 47120 at Huntley working the 0848 Inverness-Aberdeen.
Copyright: Glenn Jones
24/12/83: 47207 at Doncaster on an Edinburgh-Kings Cross. Copyright: David Hall