47483 arrives at Shipton station on 9 May 1992 with the Cotswold Line Promotion Group 1Z40 07:00 Oxford to Newcastle 'Cotswold Tyne Express' railtour, as a small group of CLPG members get ready to board their train. Apparently the tour was banked up the Lickey Incline by 58005. 47483 failed at York and was removed from the train in favour of 47500 Great Western, which being a GW150 green liveried loco would have been more appropriate choice in the first place for a train from the Cotswold Line. Whatever the fault was with 47483, it must have been serious, as this was the loco's final passenger working. |