47362 passes Stoke Orchard on 21 July 1984 with the 1M53 10:20 Glasgow Central to Bristol Temple Meads service, which the loco worked from Birmingham New Street. As the Mk1 coaches do not have air conditioning, the fact that this is a non ETH 47/3 doesn't matter. With less freight trains at the weekend, this was a fairly common use of resources in the 1970s and 1980s, when the railway was one integrated organisation, and not drowning in a sea of bureaucracy! |