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Class 47/0. D1699 (later 47111) at Birmingham New Street Station in June 1970. 1M12 was the Western Region Paddington-Birmingham express via Princes Risboro. 47111 was withdrawn in February 1986. Photo by Michael Taylor (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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Class 47/0 in BR Green livery. What is believed to be #1730 allocated to Bristol Bath Road with a down Bristol express on the down main approaching Southall on a Saturday morning in June 1972. 1730 became 47138 in the 1973 renumbering scheme. Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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Brush type 4 #1919 rushes through Southall on an up express on a Saturday morning in June 1972. Photo by Michael Taylor (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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Class 47. 1925 at Swansea with the 1A41 express to London Paddington in June 1973. This 47/0 loco was renumbered 47248 in Nov 1973 and still survives in traffic as class 47/7 47789 carrying the name "Lindisfarne". Photo by Michael Taylor (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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Class 47 D1705 and Class 31 D5830 at Loughborough. Great Central Railway 16 May, 2010. D h Thomas. thomdh@hotmail.com

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EWS Class 47/0. 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' which is seen carrying its pre-TOPS number of D1524, is seen on display at the EWS Toton depot open weekend on Sat 29th Aug 1998. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk)

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EWS Class 47/0. 47016 'Atlas' is seen on display at the EWS Toton depot open weekend on Sat 29th Aug 1998. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk)

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EWS Class 47/0. EWS's Component Recovery & Distribution Centre at Wigan has become the final resting place for many redundant locomotives. All locomotives that arrive here are destined for stripping of all reusable components, many of which are now obsolete and are costly and/or hard to obtain. These components are then distributed around to be reused on other sevicable examples in order to keep them going. In this view 47016 'ATLAS', which arrived here on 11th December 1998, waiting it's fate at Wigin CR&DC on 14th August 1999. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk) Website: http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/aos/photography

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Preserved Class 47 number 47105 in BR blue livery at Toddington station on the Gloucestershire Warkshire Railway sometime in the early/mid 1990s Photo: aw_789@yahoo.com

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Class 47. Derelict 47120 is seen at Tinsley depot, Sheffield during the Depot open day event on 29-Sept-90. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk).

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Class 47/0 47120 stands in a derelict state at Tinsley depot, Sheffield during the depot open day held there in 1989. Photo: Scott Aitken, Scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk) Website: http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/aos/photography

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BR Class 47/0 47140 stops at the top of the Lickey Incline, at the site of the closed Blackwell station, to pin down brakes on its partially fitted train as an unidentified Peak 1-Co-Co-1 diesel brings a Birmingham bound passenger up the 2 mile long 1 in 37 climb. Photographed in July 1974.   Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (michael@einbahn.org) Website www.einbahn.org

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Class 47/0. 47140 stopped at Blackwell, at the top of the Lickey Incline, so that "the brakes could be pinned down". June 1974 while on my way to the Severn Valley Railway. Photo by Michael Taylor (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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Class 47/0. 47145 passes Exeter St. David's non-stop with a passenger special in July 1974. Photo by Michael Taylor (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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Class 47/0. 47158 rushes through Stratford with an up passenger train composed of early Mark 2 coaches in July 1977. 47158 was converted to 47/4 in December 1985 and renumbered 47634 and presently carries the name "Holbeck". Photo by Michael Taylor (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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BR Blue Class 47/0. 47280 runs light through Guide Bridge Station on the wires of the ex-LNER Manchester-Sheffield electrification project. Photographed in March 1974. Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (michael@michaeltaylor.ca) Website www.MichaelTaylor.ca

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47 097 assists 47 481 with the 16:05 Swansea - Portsmouth as they approach Newport, 3/7/87 Photo copyright Stephen Dance (sdance@esfplc.com)

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In fading light 47 085 and 47 063 pass Bishton with a parcels train consisting of just 2 GUV vans, 3/7/87 Photo copyright Stephen Dance (sdance@esfplc.com)

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47 095 works a Freightliner west near Goring and Streatley, 31/1/87 Photo copyright Stephen Dance (sdance@esfplc.com)

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47 277 with an eastbound tank train at Basildon, 10/1/89 Photo copyright Stephen Dance (sdance@esfplc.com)

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47 087 passes Trowse Lower Junction near Norwich with the 08:55 Newcastle - yarmouth, 29/5/82 Photo copyright Stephen Dance (sdance@esfplc.com)

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Class 47 47076 "City of Truro" pictured at Old Oak Common, London 11th March 1979. Photo by Kevin Ferguson (Kevinf2349@hotmail.com). All rights reserved.

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Recently repainted 47117 brings its train into Quorn passing 37255 on the way during the Great Central Railway's September 2004 Diesel Gala. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com British and Foreign Railway Pictures Jampics Fotopic.

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Wednesday 25th February 2004 marks the day that the first class 47 has reached 40 years in traffic, the loco D1719 now 47811 actually working a First Great Western sleeper train. When they were new they would have been in a green livery like 47004 'Old Oak Common Traction Depot' pictured at Swindon in 1998 which was then itself the holder of the oldest class 47 title. Still around today at its namesake the loco has we think been just cosmetically restored. With the main current user of class 47s EWS deciding to cease using them as soon as possible there will be considerably less opportunites to see them in action...but they will not be gone from the scene entirely for some time as operators like Fragonset have restored quite a few to mainline service. This class of loco of which just over 500 were built...more than any other BR class...has done absolutely everything and well merits these pictures of them in action taken between 1998 and 2004. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com British and Foreign Railway Pictures Jampics Fotopic.

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47016 'Atlas' was the last class 47 to run in Large Logo Railfreight Grey and was a very popular with enthusiasts when Pictured at Stratford in 1998. The loco was to the surprise of many broken up soon after its withdrawal a year or so later. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com British and Foreign Railway Pictures Jampics Fotopic.

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BR Diesel locomotive D 1705 on Great Central Railway, Loughborough, 13th september 1998. Photo: tobias b köhler

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Interior of BR Diesel locomotive D 1705 on Great Central Railway, Leicester North, 13th september 1998. Photo: tobias b köhler

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Preserved Class 47, D1842, with the 16:20 Bridgnorth - Kidderminster on the Servern Valley Railway at Northwood, 7/5/93 Photo copyright Stephen Dance (sdance@esfplc.com)