47004_1978_05_Manningtree1
HELP - My “summer holiday” in 1978 was a First Class Eastern Region Railrover and I had stocked up with 35mm transparency film for the week ahead. Or so I thought because when it came to processing the week’s photography I realised that one roll of film was in fact a colour print film!!! An additional problem is I seem to have lost any records that went with this roll of film and therefore here we see an unidentified Stratford allocated class 47 approaching Manningtree with an express for Norwich, 30th May 1978. Any ideas on the identity of this class 47 gratefully received.
My thanks to Nigel Antolic, John Simmonds and Andy Hoare, I have settled on 47004.
Locomotive History
47004 was originally D1524 and was the fifth of the production series of Brush Type 4’s built at Brush, Loughborough. It was fitted with a Brush TG-160-60 Mk4 main generator, Brush TM64-68 Mk1a traction motors connected in a series parallel arrangement, a Spanner Swirlyflow MkIIIB steam heating boiler and was vacumn braked. It was dual braked in February 1971 renumbered 47004 in November 1973 and had it's steam heating boiler isolated during October 1987.
It entered traffic in June 1963 allocated to Finsbury Park MPD, spent six month allocated to Tinsley from May 1967 followed by six months back at Finsbury Park before transferring to Tinsley permanently in May 1968. This was followed by transfer to Stratford (April 1970), Holbeck (October 1971), Gateshead (April 1972), Immingham (May 1972), Stratford (June 1972), Gateshead (September 1973) where it was renumbered 47004, Stratford (May 1975), Eastfield (March 1983), Tinsley (November 1990) from where it was withdrawn in July 1991. However four months later it was re-instated and transferred to Old Oak Common. In early 1994 it was repainted in two tone green with full yellow ends and in March 1994 transferred to Stratford followed by Toton in March 1996, Immingham in October 1997 and finally Bescot in July 1998 from where it was withdrawn for a second time in December 1998. It has subsequently been sold for preservation and is currently (March 2016) to be found at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway.
Praktica LTL
47004_1978_05_Manningtree1
HELP - My “summer holiday” in 1978 was a First Class Eastern Region Railrover and I had stocked up with 35mm transparency film for the week ahead. Or so I thought because when it came to processing the week’s photography I realised that one roll of film was in fact a colour print film!!! An additional problem is I seem to have lost any records that went with this roll of film and therefore here we see an unidentified Stratford allocated class 47 approaching Manningtree with an express for Norwich, 30th May 1978. Any ideas on the identity of this class 47 gratefully received.
My thanks to Nigel Antolic, John Simmonds and Andy Hoare, I have settled on 47004.
Locomotive History
47004 was originally D1524 and was the fifth of the production series of Brush Type 4’s built at Brush, Loughborough. It was fitted with a Brush TG-160-60 Mk4 main generator, Brush TM64-68 Mk1a traction motors connected in a series parallel arrangement, a Spanner Swirlyflow MkIIIB steam heating boiler and was vacumn braked. It was dual braked in February 1971 renumbered 47004 in November 1973 and had it's steam heating boiler isolated during October 1987.
It entered traffic in June 1963 allocated to Finsbury Park MPD, spent six month allocated to Tinsley from May 1967 followed by six months back at Finsbury Park before transferring to Tinsley permanently in May 1968. This was followed by transfer to Stratford (April 1970), Holbeck (October 1971), Gateshead (April 1972), Immingham (May 1972), Stratford (June 1972), Gateshead (September 1973) where it was renumbered 47004, Stratford (May 1975), Eastfield (March 1983), Tinsley (November 1990) from where it was withdrawn in July 1991. However four months later it was re-instated and transferred to Old Oak Common. In early 1994 it was repainted in two tone green with full yellow ends and in March 1994 transferred to Stratford followed by Toton in March 1996, Immingham in October 1997 and finally Bescot in July 1998 from where it was withdrawn for a second time in December 1998. It has subsequently been sold for preservation and is currently (March 2016) to be found at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway.
Praktica LTL