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19/03/97: 47844 at Reading. Note the mirror-background nameplate, 844 was the only class 47 ever to carry one of these.
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26/04/97: 47806 at Reading, having just run round its train.
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03/05/97: 47033 at Crewe Electric open day.
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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(!)
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