47531 approaches Pirton level crossing on 7 May 1993 with the 1E43 17:42 Bristol Temple Meads to Newcastle Royal Mail vans. This was during the locomotive's second period of being numbered 47531. It originally carried the number from May 1974, until June 1990, when it assigned to test duties, and renumbered into the 47/9 series, as 47974. It reverted to 47531 in June 1992, and remained so until the end of 1993, when it was converted to a 47/7, and renumbered 47775.