47425 Culham 18 May 1992

47425 slows down on the approach to Culham on 18 May 1992 with the 1F52 18:08 Paddington to Oxford Network SouthEast service. This train called at most stations in the Thames Valley, in the manner of the DMU services. The loco hauled Oxford trains usually only called at principal stations. It would not be long however before everything was a DMU! The Class 50s had gone two years earlier, and now various ex Railfreight sectors 47s, such as this former Tinsley loco, had been drafted in for the last few months of loco haulage.