The Class 47 List

  Thursday 03/12/09

47270 = 0Z47 0800 Crewe CSFL-Crewe CSFL via Shrewsbury, Bescot, Soho, Tyseley, Leamington Spa(reverse).

47739 = 0Z43 1000 Doncaster West Yard-Loughborough Works.

47739 + 43319 in tow = 5Z43 1306 Loughborough Works-Neville Hill.

47790 + 37423 t'n't = 5Z20 0545 Carlisle Kingmoor-Workington(790)/ 2T18 0705 Workington-Maryport(37)/ 2Z19 0725 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T20 0810 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z21 0833 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T22 0940 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z23 1000 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T24 1030 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z25 1050 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T26 1120 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z27 1145 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T28 1220 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z29 1250 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T30 1335 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z31 1400 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T32 1445 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z33 1510 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T34 1550 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z35 1625 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T36 1700 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z37 1720 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T38 1755 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z39 1820 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 2T40 1850 Wkg-Mry(37)/ 2Z41 1915 Mry-Wkg(790)/ 5Z21 2105 Wkg-Carlisle Kingmoor(37).

01/12/09: 47790 departs Workington ECS to the sidings to allow 37423 to cross to the northbound platform for the return working. 790 had worked the 1120 from Maryport to Workington, this being its first day in passenger service for almost 24 months.
Photo Copyright: Pip Dunn

Photo page updated, with many images of 47790 and a few others.

Further info on 47790;
790 (and 47792 - now 47804 with WCRC) were both withdrawn on 01/04/04, the day after the final EWS worked LHCS train in north wales (47750 with 1H44).
01/04/04 was also the first day since the 1960s that no locomotive hauled train was scheduled to be hauled by class 47s, although in the event there were two Liverpool-Eustons which were 47 hauled throughout vice electric following problems - which were the only two trains to commence their journies on the 1st as 47811 had worked 31/03/04's 1C99 from Paddington to Plymouth where it was replaced by a 57.
Sulzerpower.com's archives have 47790's last train (before DRS days) as 21/03/04's 1C86 14xx Euston-Carlisle from two miles north of Crewe-Crewe station, and 47792's last working as 792 was 30/03/04's 1H44 0638 Bangor-Manchester Piccadilly.
790's previous train was on 17/03/04 when it hauled 1F24 2000 Euston-Liverpool throughout (a bit further than the two miles of 21/03/04!)
In DRS times, 790's most recent passenger working before 01/12/09 had been 1Z47 0726 Kings Cross-Skipton from Finsbury Park on 15th December 2007, the return working saw 790 on the rear of 832 - they had been top'n'tail all day.
After that, on 17/12/07 47790 and 47802 (the latter had been at Wembley stabled) were allocated 5Z47 1255 Wembley-Carnforth, though 790 failed at Ledburn and the formation was dragged by an 0Z15 (EWS 66s???) to Bletchley/ then 47802 hauled the train forwards. 790 did not work again until the unknown test run previously mentioned at the end of November 2009.

Even further on 47790 - the 19/12/09 Barrow Hill-Carlisle Rail Blue Charters trip, requested to be 47790 and 47841, has apparently been cancelled.

thanks for news today: Crumb, Driff47844, D.Armstrong, Mick Hirst, Rob Reedman.

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