Part 1 (January - July)

Sparks fly from the wheels as 47403 'The Geordie' re-starts from Banbury with 1O19 0800 Newcastle - Poole (01/02/1986)

47406 'RailRiders' is pictured in the early hours of Saturday morning at Doncaster with an 'up' van train (08/02/1986)

47418 waits at Peterborough with Friday night's 1A33 2300 Newcastle-Kings Cross (08/02/1986)

47573 arrives at Ely with the 0700 Kings Lynn-Liverpool Street (08/02/1986)

47583 'County of Hertfordshire' on arrival at Kings Lynn with 2H04 0730 from Cambridge (08/02/1986)

47049 arrives at Huntly with 1H29 1140 Aberdeen-Inverness (15/02/1986)

Having worked the train forward from Birmingham via Oxford and Swindon, 47620 'Windsor Castle' is pictured on arrival at Bristol Temple Meads with the previous night's 1V62 2335 from Glasgow Central. My marathon journey from Scotland on this service had included 47538 to Carlisle, 47503 to Preston via the S&C, and then 47570 forward to Birmingham - piloted by 47553 over Cannock! (16/02/1986)

47543 arrives at Banbury with 1O62 0602 Derby - Brighton (16/02/1986)

47413 at Birmingham New Street after working the 0747 Cardiff-Glasgow (17/02/1986)

47533 departs Carlisle with the 1240 to Glasgow Central via Dumfries (22/02/1986)

Later that afternoon 47616 'Y Ddraig Goch/The Red Dragon' calls at Keighley with 1E33 1635 Carlisle - Hull (05/05/1986)

The nameplate of 47645 'Robert F. Fairlie' (27/05/1986)

47645 about to work forward from Bristol Temple Meads with the 0630 Cardiff-Portsmouth. Not the best of phots, but it's the only one I've got of this relatively early casualty (27/05/1986)

Recently named/repainted 47337 'Herbert Austin' is pictured in the centre road at Bristol Temple Meads (27/05/1986)

47423 at Portsmouth Harbour with the 1302 to Manchester Piccadilly (30/05/1986)

47611 'Thames' departs Paddington with the 1M61 1740 to Banbury (30/05/1986)

47484 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel' at Paddington prior to working the 1C71 1847 to Bristol Temple Meads (30/05/1986)

47204 pauses at Wolverhampton en route to Shrewsbury with the SO 1J18 0725 Birmingham-Aberystwyth, one of the few turns that was actually booked for an 'NB' Brush at the time (31/05/1986)

Another such train (I think!) was 1E72 1030 Birmingham-Yarmouth, pictured here departing New Street a couple of hours later behind Thornaby flagship 47361 'Wilton Endeavour' (31/05/1986)

One of the last two 47s to carry a 'domino' headcode panel (albeit at one end only) 47285 passes through Bristol Parkway with an 'up' van train (31/05/1986)

Having taken over 1E60 0935 Tenby - York from 47615 whilst the train reversed, railfreight-liveried 47095 awaits depature from Gloucester (31/05/1986)

47095 is seen again at Wakefield Westgate with 1E60 before departing on the lat leg of its journey to York. I would have stayed on for the mileage but...

...minutes behind was another 'winner': 47089 'Amazon' is pictured on arrival at Leeds with 1L31 1328 from Skegness (31/05/1986)

47280 'Pedigree' passes through Huddersfield with a westbound train of oil tanks (06/06/1986)