47477_1982_06_Exeter_A3_600dpi
Approaching Exeter St Davids on the 5th June 1982 with a westbound express is 47477.
Not the greatest photograph composition wise, too much foreground with the result that the subject (the train) is too high in the frame.
Locomotive History
47477 was originally D1607, was built at Crewe Works and entered traffic allocated to Landore on the 31st July 1964. Apart from spending most of 1981 and two years from May 1986 at Gateshead it would spend the next twenty five years as a Western Region engine being allocated to all the principle Western Region MPD’s during that period. In March 1989 it transferred briefly to Inverness before its final transfer in May 1989 to Crewe from where it was withdrawn in June 1992. It was broken up a year later by CF Booth, Rotherham in July 1993.
Canon AT1, Kodachrome 64
47477_1982_06_Exeter_A3_600dpi
Approaching Exeter St Davids on the 5th June 1982 with a westbound express is 47477.
Not the greatest photograph composition wise, too much foreground with the result that the subject (the train) is too high in the frame.
Locomotive History
47477 was originally D1607, was built at Crewe Works and entered traffic allocated to Landore on the 31st July 1964. Apart from spending most of 1981 and two years from May 1986 at Gateshead it would spend the next twenty five years as a Western Region engine being allocated to all the principle Western Region MPD’s during that period. In March 1989 it transferred briefly to Inverness before its final transfer in May 1989 to Crewe from where it was withdrawn in June 1992. It was broken up a year later by CF Booth, Rotherham in July 1993.
Canon AT1, Kodachrome 64