20th Dec 1987
Five days before Christmas and you find me peering across from the overbridge towards the stabling point. In view here, apart from a Class 101 Met-Cam DMU, is "local" engine, Class 37 no. 37142 (long-time Laira loco), Class 47/0 no. 47211 in the first Railfreight livery with large logo, and Class 47/4 no. 47455.
47211 had recently been transferred to Tinsley, Sheffield, from Bristol Bath Road, in October, but clearly hadn't got far two months later! It would meet its end, courtesy of the scrap man, in 2003 at Eastleigh Works. 47455 was Crewe-based at the time of this photo and would be scrap by 1995. Happily no. 37142 lives on, in retirement on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway, Cornwall, its spiritual home.
47211 had recently been transferred to Tinsley, Sheffield, from Bristol Bath Road, in October, but clearly hadn't got far two months later! It would meet its end, courtesy of the scrap man, in 2003 at Eastleigh Works. 47455 was Crewe-based at the time of this photo and would be scrap by 1995. Happily no. 37142 lives on, in retirement on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway, Cornwall, its spiritual home.
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