The one that got away... what might one day have been my 500th Brush (it got withdrawn before I ever got chance to have it), 47336, double heads a train of oil tanks at Grantham with the equally massive 47054 (12/05/1990)
47596 'Aldeburgh Festival' arrives at Ely with 1H55 0800 Kings Lynn-Liverpool Street on the last day of loco-hauled services on the route (12/05/1990)
47596 is pictured again with 1H55 at Cambridge (12/05/1990)
47579 'James Nightall GC' keeping some bad company(!) at Cambridge. The Cambridge-Kings Lynn shuttles were worked by a DMU on this day, leaving 579 'spare' (12/05/1990)
47581 'Great Eastern' arrives at Cambridge with the last loco-hauled 'up' train, 1H61 0900 Kings Lynn-Liverpool Street (12/05/1990)
47468 awaiting its next duty at Clapham Junction (12/05/1990)
Continuing the theme, 47583 'County of Hertfordshire' (a former 'SF' favourite) is pictured at Paddington on ECS duties (12/05/1990)
47583 at Paddington with an ECS to Kensal Green (12/05/1990)
The headboard pretty much says it all, really... 47581 'Great Eastern' awaits departure from Liverpool Street with 1H06 1832 to Kings Lynn (12/05/1990)
47581 pauses at Cambridge with 1H06 1832 Liverpool Street-Kings Lynn (12/05/1990)
A selection of faces, old and new, celebrate/mourn the last booked passenger turn for a 'Stratford' 47 (12/05/1990)
After working the penultimate train from Liverpool Street to Kings Lynn, 47576 'Kings Lynn' arrives back at Ely with the 1920 Kings Lynn-Cambridge (12/05/1990)
47581 waits time at Ely with 1H06 1832 Liverpool Street-Kings Lynn (12/05/1990)
The end of an era as 47581 arrives at Kings Lynn with 1H06 1832 from Liverpool Street, the last through loco-hauled passenger service from London to the Norfolk town (12/05/1990)
Just a few hours into the first 'Summer Satuurday' of 1990, 47156 is pictured at Nottingham with 1E48 0630 Sheffield-Skegness (19/05/1990)
Another view of 47156 on arrival at Skegness a couple of hours later with 1E48 (19/05/1990)
47156 awaits departure from Skegness with the return 1E55 1038 to Sheffield via Nottingham (19/05/1990)
47156 is pictured again on arrival at Sheffield with 1E55 1038 from Skegness (19/05/1990)
47579 'James Nightall GC' guides some if its inferior cousins through Doncaster station towards the TMD (19/05/1990)
'Skeg' was obviously the place to be today, as 47359 arrives at Doncaster with 1D23 1440 Skegness-Leeds (19/05/1990)
47359 is pictured on arrival at Leeds with 1D23 1440 Skegness-Leeds. Although now a Tinsley RfD machine, '359 was one of only a handful of 47s to carry the Railfreight Metals sub-sector branding (19/05/1990)
47572 'Ely Cathedral' is pictured at Leeds, sporting a modified 'Stratford' version of 'large-logo' livery (19/05/1990)
Parcels Sector 47572 'Ely Cathedral' and 47580 'County of Essex' reminisce about their 'Stratford' days at Leeds (19/05/1990)
Stratford's 47366 'The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' at Norwich having taken over 1L82 0800 Liverpool-Yarmouth from 47123 for the short run to the coast (26/05/1990)
