Two days later the same loco is pictured again at Dundee, shunting the empty stock after 47851 had worked 1Z63 0515 Green Express charter from Ashton-under-Lyne (01/05/2006)
47402 'Gateshead' waits to depart from Grosmont with the 1155 to Pickering on the first day of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway's Diesel Weekend (05/05/2006)
'Gateshead' enjoys a break in the sun at Grosmont before working the 1615 round trip to Pickering. The Bury-based machine was one of a number of guests brought in to the NYMR for the three-day Gala (05/05/2006)
47402 awaits the arrival of a late-running northbound train at Goathland whilst working the 1615 Grosmont-Pickering. The Brush was deputising for the resident '50', which had failed before departure (05/05/2006)
Making possibly the first visit of a '47' to this location with a passenger train, 47851 has just arrived at North Berwick with the empty stock from Bo'ness for SRPS Railtours' charter to Fort William and Mallaig (06/05/2006)
Working its first meaningful passenger train since its resurrection by West Coast, 47245 calls at Edinburgh Waverley with 1Z46 0526 North Berwick-Fort William (06/05/2006)
47851 is pictured again on arrival at Mallaig after working 1Z48 1242 from Fort William (06/05/2006)
47245 waits to head back south from Mallaig with the return 1Z47 1450 to North Berwick, which it worked as far as Fort William (06/05/2006)
A night in Berwick Travelodge either side of the Mallaig tour set us up nicely for a return visit to the 'Moors' on the way home for the last day of the Diesel Gala. 47402 waits to back onto the Pullman stock at Grosmont after working the 1015 from Pickering (07/05/2006)
'Gateshead' leads the 1255 Grosmont-Pickering 'Moorlander' dining train through Newtondale in the North Yorkshire Moors National park (07/05/2006)
47402 is seen again at Levisham with the 1435 Pickering-Grosmont return service (07/05/2006)
Having run round its train, '402 shunts the empty 'Moorlander' pullman stock on arrival back at Grosmont (07/05/2006)
With a rake of Gresley LNER coaches now in tow, 47402 waits to depart from Grosmont with the 1650 'local' to Goathland (07/05/2006)
'Gateshead' shunts the empty stock into the loop at Goathland to run round. The return working back to Grosmont was its last duty of a thoroughly enjoyable weekend (07/05/2006)
The following weekend saw a two-day Diesel Gala at the Great Central Railway. 47117 is pictured on arrival at Rothley with 2C28 1255 from Loughborough Central (14/05/2006)
'Sparrow Hawk' waits to depart from Rothley with the return 2D28 1342 'local' to Loughborough Central (14/05/2006)
47117 is seen again on arrival back at Loughborough with 2D28. The loco had failed the previous day after one round trip to Leicester, but completed the Sunday diagram without incident (14/05/2006)
Leeds United's Championship 'Play-Off' Final against Watford at the Millennium Stadium had seen three 47-hauled charters operate to the Welsh capital. 47832 is pictured on arrival back at Leeds with Heritage Train Tours' 1Z60 1910 from Cardiff (21/05/2006)
47853 'Rail Express' arrived shortly afterwards with 1Z48 19xx Cardiff-Leeds. I won't mention the result... (21/05/2006)
47714 arrives at Blackburn with Compass Tours' 1Z47 0512 Crewe-Edinburgh charter (27/05/2006)
A close-up of Cotswold Rail's unique 'Anglia'-liveried machine at Blackburn whilst '813 was detached from the rear to run round (27/05/2006)
47813 'John Peel' runs round at Blackburn to work forward in multiple with '714. The train had been top-and-tailed out of Crewe due to the reversal at Liverpool, but both loco's were wanted on the front of the train to tackle the gradients of the S&C and Beattock (27/05/2006)
47813 + 47714 make quite a bizarre sight with a rake of former Virgin Mkllls and DVT in tow as '1Z47' crosses Ribblehead viaduct (27/05/2006)
The pair are seen on arrival in Edinburgh with 1Z47. Along with many others, however, I'd used this tour as a 'positioning move' to get to Scotland, and wasn't returning back south...(27/05/2006)
