Part 1 (January - May)

47413 arrives at Manchester Victoria with 1E08 1103 Liverpool - Newcastle (09/01/1988)

47446 departs from Leeds with 1E08 1103 Liverpool - Newcastle (30/01/1988)

47515 'Night Mail' is pictured on arrival at Glasgow Central with the previous night's 1S19 1840 Plymouth - Edinburgh, which it had worked forward from Carlisle via Dumfries and Kilmarnock (31/01/1988)

Eastfield's 47577 runs round at Leeds after arriving with 1E01 0630 from Carlisle. The loco was sporting a hybrid of BR blue and large-logo blue liveries dating from its time at Stratford (06/02/1988)

47646 pauses at Huddersfield whilst the mail is loaded onto 1M41 2225 York - Shrewsbury (12/02/1988)

47629 waits to depart from Dover Western Docks with 1M04 1355 to Liverpool Lime Street (13/02/1988)

47549 'Royal Mail' passes though Bath's Sydney Gardens on its way to pick up an engineering haulage train (22/02/1988)

couple of hours later 47549 'Royal Mail' passes Bathampton Junction with a train of used ballast from the Westbury direction (22/02/1988)

Withdrawn 47202 is flanked by 31141 and 47186 in a typical view of Bath Road Depot from the platform at Bristol Temple Meads (22/02/1988)

A Manchester-bound HST departs as 47572 arrives into Stockport with 1V07 1412 Manchester Piccadilly - Cardiff (27/02/1988)

47572 'Ely Cathedral' arrives at Stockport with 1V07 1412 Manchester - Cardiff (27/02/1988)

47615 'Castell Caerffili / Caerphilly Castle' was the forward traction from Plymouth, and is pictured here at Bristol Temple Meads with 1S86 1040 Penzance - Edinburgh (27/02/1988)

Bristol Bath Road depot plays host to a variety of locmotives and units in this view, including 37232 and 47079 nearest the camera (28/02/1988)

47079 had been the first of the Class to be repainted in the new Railfreight colours for the launch event back in October 1987. Sporting Construction Sector decals, the loco is seen here at Bristol Bath Road (28/02/1988)

47634 'Henry Ford' makes its way onto Bath Road Depot (28/02/1988)

47452 waits to depart from Bristol Temple Meads with the additional 1E64 1652 to Leeds (28/02/1988)

47711 'Greyfriars Bobby' is pictured at Edinburgh Waverley having been uncoupled from the 1150 portion from Glasgow Central, which was about to be attached to the rear of the 1030 Aberdeen - Plymouth in Platform 1 by 08755 (27/03/1988)

47469 'Glasgow Chamber of Commerce' arrives at Carrbridge with 1T30 1225 Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street (06/04/1988)

47711 'Greyfriars Bobby' waits at Elgin with 1H25 0740 Aberdeen - Inverness as 47640 approaches from the west with 1A46 0832 Inverness - Aberdeen (07/04/1988)

47550 'University of Dundee' arrives at Insch with 1H33 1540 Aberdeen - Inverness (07/04/1988)

Two days later 47550 'University of Dundee' rests at Aberdeen after arriving with 1A42 0500 from Inverness (09/04/1988)

47097 is pictured on arrival at Birmingham New Street with 1G28 1140 from London Euston, which it had worked forward from Nuneaton (24/04/1988)

47097 is seen again a couple of hours later having arrived back at Nuneaton with the diverted 1A20 1500 Birmingham - Euston (24/04/1988)

47489 waits for the mail to be unloaded at Leeds before departing on the last leg of its journey to York with the previous night's 1E24 2250 ex-Shrewsbury. Although the train continued to run the following week it no longer conveyed passenger accommodation, hence the headboards which marked its withdrawal from the public timetable (14/05/1988)