47650 Marshfield 5 June 1989

Not much of a load for a Class 47! Running exactly to time, 47650 passes Marshfield on 5 June 1989 with the 3A12 06:45 Swansea to Old Oak Common empty newspaper vans. What a come down for this once very well loaded train. Just four years earlier the load was much healthier. 47650 did not spend very long in this guise, only carrying the number 47650 between March 1986 and August 1989. It originally entered service in March 1966 as D1935, changing to 47257 with the introduction of TOPS numbering. Its final incarnation was 47805, after the fitting of extra fuel tanks.