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13/02/97: On a winter Thursday, 47525 stands at Taunton working 1E40 1650 Plymouth to Sheffield.
Photo Copyright: Ian Hodge
24/02/97: Freightliner's 47302 seen at Doncaster, next to a selection of stored class 141s.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
05/03/97: Freightliner 47349 heading southbound light at Monk Fryston.
Photo Copyright: Dave Scarlett
XX/03/97: 47839 at Blackrod. Copyright: Tim Moss
19/03/97: 47844 at Reading. Note the mirror-background nameplate, 844 was the only class 47 ever to carry one of these.
Copyright: GGC
26/04/97: 47806 at Reading, having just run round its train.
Copyright: GGC
03/05/97: 47033 at Crewe Electric open day.
Photo Copyright: Richard Boyd
25/05/97: 47972, recently scrapped, seen at Doncaster having backed on to the mk4 DVT at the front of the 0930 Newcastle to Kings Cross, which 972 would haul to Newark North Gate.
Photo Copyright: Crumb
31/07/97: 47817 at Reading. Although this livery was something different to photograph, and certainly easier to photograph than something like modern-day WCRC dark maroon, this Porterbrook design was liked by few, perhaps with the exception of Northern Rail who experimented with these colours in recent times for their own fleet livery(!)
Copyright: GGC
11/08/97: Another 525 memory, 1M79 1647 Reading to Liverpool Lime Street, with 47849 in tow - seen before departure from Reading. 525 was withdrawn in May 1998. As mentioned with the 615 photo recently, 525 was another of the ETH capable Brush to receive a freight livery, though 525 and 540 are the last survivors to still carry those colours (helped by almost 12 years in store of course in 525's case!)
Photo Copyright: Richard Boyd