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15/01/93: 47808 at Dover Western Docks before working the 1412 to Liverpool Lime Street. 808 had been renamed without ceremony 'Samson' by this time, rather than being refitted with its original 'SAMSON' GWR style plates.
Photo Copyright: Richard Boyd
17/01/93 - 47449 at Exeter St Davids with 1O39 1543 Exeter St Davids-Waterloo (via Westbury).
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
17/01/93 - 47579 'James Nightall G.C' at Yeovil Junction on 1V11 1058 Waterloo-Exeter St Davids via Westbury.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
17/01/93 - Parcels coloured 47703 'The Queen Mother' at Westbury with 1V08 0815 Basingstoke-Exeter St Davids, having just run round the stock and about to head off via Castle Cary on this Sunday diversion away from Gillingham.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
17/01/93 - 47707 'Holyrood' at Westbury with 1O35 0928 Exeter St Davids-Waterloo via Westbury.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
24/01/93 - 47701 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' after running round at Westbury with 1V08 0815 Basingstoke-Exeter via Westbury.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
24/01/93 - 47714 stands at Westbury ready to run-round 1V11 1058 Waterloo-Exeter St Davids via Westbury.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
25/01/93: 47717 at Yeovil on 1V09 0835 Waterloo-Exeter. Photo Copyright: Crumb
31/01/93 - 47709 at Exeter with 1O35 0928 Exeter-Waterloo (SuO).
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
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
09/03/93: Nice thrashing view of 47526 at Andover on 2V13 1315 Waterloo-Exeter. Copyright: Andy Barnes
24/04/93: 47551 above, which had already carried the number 47801, was renumbered back to 47551 before a repaint into Res livery. Not too long after this photo was taken at Lunds of the loco hauling an unknown northbound service it was named Poste Restante and was then modified to work with former class 307 driving vehicles and renumbered 47774.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
24/04/93: With a number of S&C drags/diversions going on, here above is NSE 47707 between Smardale and Kirkby Stephen on an unknown Cross Country working at about 9am. Although loco hauled NSE workings continued from London Waterloo until the end of June 1993, 47707's last recorded working here on these was on 17th January 1993 and it became a Parcels sector loco as per a number of other former NSE 47/7s. Although only recently scrapped, it had been long withdrawn and 707's last passenger working was on Tuesday 2nd April 1996 on 1K67 1323 Bangor-Crewe.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
24/04/93: 47825 emerges from Blea Moor Tunnel with 1S57 from Paddington to Glasgow Central, working it from Preston(?) to Carlisle. After moving away from Virgin in 1999, it found a home for a short while at Norwich acting as a standby loco and working trains to Great Yarmouth and as such a final passenger working for it before it became the 13th class 57 was on 28th January 2000 when it worked 1P50 1850 Liverpool Street-Norwich throughout.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
16/05/93: The last Paddington-Worcester loco hauled service, headed by the aptly named 47821 'Royal Worcester' carrying a 'Cathedrals Express' headboard. This was a Sunday, and the working above which was seen passing through Tilehurst was 1B36 1537 Paddington-Worcester Shrub Hill, with the final working being the return 1A86 1905 Worcester Shrub Hill-Paddington. The following day the trains would be entirely in the hands of class 165 and 166 units. 821 was previously D1730, 47138 and 47607, it would later be 47786 'Roy Castle OBE'.
Photo Copyright: Howard Osiransky
28/05/93: 47237 at Llandudno on a railtour (1Z28). Copyright: Phil Grint
09/06/93: 47368 at Boston hauling 1M86 1812 Skegness to Leicester. Copyright: Phil Grint
25/06/93 - 47703 'The Queen Mother' at Exeter St Davids after working 1V17 1730 Waterloo-Exeter, the return working being 1O41 2230 Exeter-Salisbury.
Photo Copyright: Mark Jamieson
26/06/93: 47224 at Dover Western Docks with an excursion from Derby, Atlas Railtours 'Dover Distributor'. Whilst this wasn't the last railtour to Dover Western Docks was one on 25/09/94, it is likely to have been the last 47 hauled tour to there. Copyright: Andy Barnes
26/06/93: 47276 at Folkestone Harbour station, waiting to depart on the same railtour after 224 hauled the tour in as 1Z40 0600 Derby-Folkestone Harbour via London Victoria and Dover Western Docks. Full details can be found at the excellent Six Bells Junction website on this relevant page. Copyright: Dave Roberts, thanks to Solomon Riley for assistance
07/08/93: 47824 at Dover Western Docks, this was the 1343 service to Liverpool which it would work to Birmingham New Street. Copyright: Andy Barnes
10/08/93: 47436, with the unusual painted name of 'BUZNAK', from Tinsely of course - is seen on a low loader at Inverness heading away fro scrap. There's more than a year between 436's last known passenger working (to Southport) and it's withdrawal date in September 1991.
Photo Copyright: Roddy MacPhee
18/09/93: 47523 at Dawlish Warren. Note the plated over headlight under the drivers side tail light from many years before. Copyright: Andy Barnes
