47802 Sandford 1st March 2008
47802 'Pride of Cumbria’ (47712 "Pride of Carlisle" on the rear) powers the short lived "Stobart Pullman” near Sandford, Dorset on a glorious 1st March 2008. Marketed as "The Thomas Hardy Circular Tour" it had started at Watford running as 1Z86 06:35 Northampton to Weymouth via Bournemouth and was the only occasion this short lived train ran this way. The Stobart Pullman had a complex history with its roots going back to August 2007 and appears to have run under the operating licence of Hertfordshire Rail Tours. This tour company was relaunched as the Stobart Pullman in February 2008, using rolling stock and traction provided by DRS hence the loco in that company’s Compass livery. Within a year or so the company gave up on the train due to poor loadings probably due to the high fares charged for the Pullman style service. As for the immaculate 47802 it started life as D1950, a Brush Built locomotive which entered service in September 1966. In early 1974 under the TOPs renumbering scheme it was supposed to become 47259 but never carried this as it was under conversion to an ETH machine at the time and so went straight to 47552 in February 1975. It became a long range loco in 1989 and further renumbered in July of that year to 47802. Now in its 54 year it's still a charter train locomotive for West Coast at Carnforth, sadly the blue giving way to their drab maroon livery.
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47802 Sandford 1st March 2008
47802 'Pride of Cumbria’ (47712 "Pride of Carlisle" on the rear) powers the short lived "Stobart Pullman” near Sandford, Dorset on a glorious 1st March 2008. Marketed as "The Thomas Hardy Circular Tour" it had started at Watford running as 1Z86 06:35 Northampton to Weymouth via Bournemouth and was the only occasion this short lived train ran this way. The Stobart Pullman had a complex history with its roots going back to August 2007 and appears to have run under the operating licence of Hertfordshire Rail Tours. This tour company was relaunched as the Stobart Pullman in February 2008, using rolling stock and traction provided by DRS hence the loco in that company’s Compass livery. Within a year or so the company gave up on the train due to poor loadings probably due to the high fares charged for the Pullman style service. As for the immaculate 47802 it started life as D1950, a Brush Built locomotive which entered service in September 1966. In early 1974 under the TOPs renumbering scheme it was supposed to become 47259 but never carried this as it was under conversion to an ETH machine at the time and so went straight to 47552 in February 1975. It became a long range loco in 1989 and further renumbered in July of that year to 47802. Now in its 54 year it's still a charter train locomotive for West Coast at Carnforth, sadly the blue giving way to their drab maroon livery.
Mamiya 645 Slide scan