In 84 I used to be responsible for servicing the lamps and stores of the Exeter trains from Waterloo, sometimes a brake ride down with certain stores such as detonators if we had surplus and anywhere along the way was short, really sad that no guard would let me ride in their brake if it was dets for some reason so ended up having to have it away on the cushions or if lucky and that only happened once, sit in the vacant cab with threats of dire death and pain if I fiddled with anything from the driver lol Quite different attitude on the other side, one late run got stranded down in Tonbridge, last train gone and I was able to cadge a lift to Clapham from a mail train via Redhill, sat in the cab with the driver as guard was having a feet up and was given a very short introduction on how a 73 worked and they aren't the simplest of engines in diesel and it cut out several times along the stretch between Tonbridge and Redhill, driver just went and whacked something with a bar and it run again hehe
They gave Old Oak some right old nails after Res had nabbed the better 47/7s, didn't they. 47526 managed to cling on until it was stored in 1995, and and finally withdrawn in 1998.
Back in the day when there was something worth going out to see
In 84 I used to be responsible for servicing the lamps and stores of the Exeter trains from Waterloo, sometimes a brake ride down with certain stores such as detonators if we had surplus and anywhere along the way was short, really sad that no guard would let me ride in their brake if it was dets for some reason so ended up having to have it away on the cushions or if lucky and that only happened once, sit in the vacant cab with threats of dire death and pain if I fiddled with anything from the driver lol
Quite different attitude on the other side, one late run got stranded down in Tonbridge, last train gone and I was able to cadge a lift to Clapham from a mail train via Redhill, sat in the cab with the driver as guard was having a feet up and was given a very short introduction on how a 73 worked and they aren't the simplest of engines in diesel and it cut out several times along the stretch between Tonbridge and Redhill, driver just went and whacked something with a bar and it run again hehe
Great footage! Lots of 47's to drool over. They were in need of some TLC!...or a wash. Great closing shot as well! Cheers. Dave
Just came across your video. Great to see the 47/7's reminded me of seeing them and working on them at Carstairs in 1980.
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They gave Old Oak some right old nails after Res had nabbed the better 47/7s, didn't they. 47526 managed to cling on until it was stored in 1995, and and finally withdrawn in 1998.
Good stuff.
47 526 could use some TLC...
RedLynx27 526 eventually got a coat of nse blue instead of rail blue. I think it was when it was in the networker transfer pool.
never liked the NSE livery!