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Class 47, no. 47316 'Cam Peak', at Doncaster Works open day on 27th July 2003. This locomotive is operated by Cotswold Rail, whose livery it carries.Class 47, no. 47376, approaching Cheltenham Racecourse station on 5th September 2003. This locomotive is preserved on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. It is painted in the previous corporate livery of Freightliner, whose identity was launched in 1995 with the naming of this locomotive "Freighliner 1995". It was withdrawn from traffic in 2001, and preserved a year later.
Class 47, no. 47815 'Abertawe Landore', at York Railfest on 3rd June 2004. The event was held to celebrate the 200th anniversary of railways. This locomotive is operated by First Great Western (FGW). It has been specially repainted in its original British Railway two-tone green livery, and given its original number of D1748, to commemorate the retirement of the FGW Class 47 fleet.
Class 47, no. 47818, at Cambridge on 23rd August 2004. This locomotive is owned by Cotswold Rail but hired to One Railway. Over the summer of 2004, it was used extensively to haul diverted passenger trains from London Liverpool St. to Norwich, due to engineering works at Ipswich.
1 Description
The British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive also known as a Brush Type Four is a class of British locomotive. It was once the most numerous class, but numbers are now dwindling.
2 Current Operations
2.1 Direct Rail Services (DRS)
2.2 English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS)
This operator no longer uses Class 47 locomotives, with the final two withdrawn in June 2004. The last service trains worked by these locomotives for EWS were along the north Wales coast to Holyhead from Crewe.
2.3 First Great Western
First Great Western inherited a fleet of Class 47/8 locomotives, which were primarily used to haul London Paddington- Penzance Sleeper and MotorRail trains. They employed on day passenger trains from the capital to the West Country at times when there was a low availability of other traction. The fleet consisted of seven locomotives, namely nos. 47811/813/815/816/830/832/846.
Locomotives were painted in a green-based livery, which was later embelished with a gold bodyside stripe. Several of the fleet were named after local attractions or place, such as nos. 47813 ' SS Great BritainThe Steam Ship Great Britain was the first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull, or a screw propeller, and when launched in 1843 was the largest vessel afloat. History The SS Great Britain was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thomas Guppy, Christophe' and 47832 ' TamarThe Tamar is a river in south western England, that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east) and Cornwall (to the west). At its mouth, the Tamar flows into the Hamoaze where it joins with the Lynher and the St Germans River before entering Ply'.
From 2001, First Great Western decided to replace the Class 47 fleet with re-engineered Class 57Ipswich on 31st January 2004. This locomotive is operated by Freightliner, and is painted in their British Racing Green livery. Crewe on 1st November 2003. This locomotive is owned by Virgin Trains, and is employed on diversion and rescue duties. Descript locomotives. A prototype, no. 57601, was extensively tested by First Great Western, and resulted in an order for four production locomotives, numbered 57602-605. These started to replace the Class 47 fleet from 2003 onwards. Most of the 47's were transferred to other operators, although one, no. 47846 ' THORThor or (ON), Thunor (OE), Donar or Donner (German) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder and lightning in Germanic and Norse Mythology, the son of Odin and Jord. While Odin is the god of the powerful and aristocratic, Thor is much more the god of', was rebuilt to a Class 57. To commemorate the retirement of the Class 47 fleet, the final locomotive, no. 47815 ' Abertawe LandoreThis page is about Swansea in Wales. For others, see Swansea (disambiguation). Swansea ( Welsh: Abertawe "aber" river-mouth + river Tawe) is a city and county in south Wales, situated on the coast, immediately to the east of the Gower peninsula in the tra', was specially repainted into its original British Railways two-tone green livery.
