47117 Irwell Vale 18 June 1995

47117 Sparrowhawk calls at Irwell Vale station on 18 June 1995, whilst en-route from Bury Bolton Street to Rawtenstall during the East Lancashire Railway's Diesel Gala. The loco had only just entered preservation, and still retains its faded BR blue paintwork an unofficial Tinsley name. It had been withdrawn from traffic in 1991.