47704_1979_05_Derby
47704 Dunedin stands in the Derby Research Centre sidings whilst undergoing tests for the new 100mph Glasgow - Edinburgh push/pull service using Mark II and Mark III coaching stock, 31st May 1979.
Locomotive History
47704 was built at the Brush Falcon works, Loughborough and entered traffic in April 1966 as D1937, allocated to Cardiff Canton MPD. It was built with a Clayton Mark II steam heating boiler, however it was one of the first batch of one hundred and thirty four class 47’s to be converted to electric train heating in the first half of the 1970’s by the addition of a Brush BL100-30 alternator and had the steam heating boiler removed. It became 47495 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme. It spent the first twelve years of its career a Western Region engine, allocated at various times to Landore, Cardiff and Bristol. In December 1978 it transferred to Edinburgh Haymarket and was one of seventeen class 47/4’s equipped with RCH remote control equipment specifically for use on the new 100mph push-pull services between Glasgow and Edinburgh, becoming 47704 in February 1979. These duties were taken over by DMU’s in 1990 and 47704 was transferred to Crewe in the November of that year for mail and parcels duties. In July 1991 it spent two months allocated to Old Oak Common for Network Southeast suburban duties out of Paddington before returning to mail and parcels duty at Crewe. This ended in May 1997 when it was withdrawn and after languishing for nine years it was eventually broken up Ron Hull, Rotherham in December 2006.
47704_1979_05_Derby
47704 Dunedin stands in the Derby Research Centre sidings whilst undergoing tests for the new 100mph Glasgow - Edinburgh push/pull service using Mark II and Mark III coaching stock, 31st May 1979.
Locomotive History
47704 was built at the Brush Falcon works, Loughborough and entered traffic in April 1966 as D1937, allocated to Cardiff Canton MPD. It was built with a Clayton Mark II steam heating boiler, however it was one of the first batch of one hundred and thirty four class 47’s to be converted to electric train heating in the first half of the 1970’s by the addition of a Brush BL100-30 alternator and had the steam heating boiler removed. It became 47495 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme. It spent the first twelve years of its career a Western Region engine, allocated at various times to Landore, Cardiff and Bristol. In December 1978 it transferred to Edinburgh Haymarket and was one of seventeen class 47/4’s equipped with RCH remote control equipment specifically for use on the new 100mph push-pull services between Glasgow and Edinburgh, becoming 47704 in February 1979. These duties were taken over by DMU’s in 1990 and 47704 was transferred to Crewe in the November of that year for mail and parcels duties. In July 1991 it spent two months allocated to Old Oak Common for Network Southeast suburban duties out of Paddington before returning to mail and parcels duty at Crewe. This ended in May 1997 when it was withdrawn and after languishing for nine years it was eventually broken up Ron Hull, Rotherham in December 2006.