Although by no means rare, a pair of Class 47s on the Paddington to Oxford Network SouthEast trains in the late 1980s was always worth photographing. On 2 June 1989, 47540 & 47538 speed past Waltham St Lawrence with the 08:15 Paddington to Oxford service. As this was the start of the period that saw a multitude of liveried locomotives on these trains (rail blue, large logo, InterCity, NSE, and even ScotRail!), it was a bit of luck to get a matched pair of large logo machines.