Class 47s - Part 1: Out of the Archive - British Trains. Also on DVD from www.linesidevideos.co.uk

Contents:
WESTBURY - close to the busy Mendip quarries a host of blue-liveried locos are seen such as 47061, 063, 150, 305 and 47524 on freight traffic, including vacuum-braked formations, all featured on some of the very earliest video material from 1984. A rare shot of a class 47 banking a class 56 to Upton Scudamore as well as 47901; & 47342 departing Westbury on a freight for Severn Tunnel Junction.
SCOTLAND - Inverness on 26th June 1986 & a range of locos are seen including blue 47017 and 206, large-logo 47460, intercity Scotrail 47430 & 642 and even a rake of blue-grey MKIII sleepers. We move to Stirling, Larbert and Inverkeithing & witness 47/7s on push-pull workings & 47s on freight before moving to Edinburgh & see 47004, 415, 430, 431, 701 & 705.
CORNWALL - starting on the mainline near Probus, we travel to Par covering the Fowey and Newquay branches as a variety of locomotives are seen on passenger and the famous china-clay freight workings, including the popular china clay hoods.
ANGLIA - March was one of the hotspots for the class when Whitemoor Yard was an important part of the freight network; we see 47152, 284, 287 & 291. Cambridge and Ipswich are covered before we move to Manningtree and see large-logo 47635 and blue 47278 & 47566: filmed between 1986 and 1990.
NORTH-WEST - from Stafford to Crewe and onwards to Norton Bridge and Warrington, including Winwick Jn and Chinley. Railfreight grey and red-stripe, BR-blue & intercity liveries are featured on engines working freight and passenger.
DEVON - our final feature covers freight & passenger workings to the southwest. Summer Saturday trains include 47/0s and 47/3s as well as ETH examples all filmed between 1984 to 1990. Highlights are 47291 paired with 37356 at Exeter & 47145 leaving Dawlish.
The programme is also available in 'hard copy' by way of a DVD. Visit www.linesidevideos.com to order and to find our latest address, which is different to the one shown at the end of this production.

[@dieseldave3879]

9:05 Class 56 on full-thrash, with a class 47 banking on the rear - must have been quite a climb! 🚂👍

[@ClydebridgeStation]

As a 47 fan, whose layout is dominated by them (they're the only mainline loco on the layout, 17 of them), what is there not to love about this video?!

[@westerleighwerek1493]

Cracking videos, I photographed 47826, you filmed at Exeter, near Bristol on the MK3 set!

[@ClydebridgeStation]

Since my last comment, my 47 fleet now comprises 26 locos! Incidentally, the push pull trains we see at Stirling, with both 47715 and 47701 pushing, both those locos are on my layout, in Network Southeast livery!

[@dave24884]

Thanks for sharing, I love the retro footage and the locos!

[@linesidevideoprod]

Many thanks!

[@Georgeasaurus2001]

Whatever you personally felt about the 47s everyone would have to concede the network is a very different place now