47701 looks slightly out of place wearing ScotRail livery as it leaves Oxford with the 1F06 09:55 Network SouthEast departure for Paddington on a dull and drizzly 17 March 1991. Admittedly the ScotRail branding has been painted out in a different shade of grey, but the colour scheme still doesn't match the NSE colours on the coaches! The loco had recently been transferred from Scotland to augment the Class 47/7s already working the Thames Valley services, following the demise of the Class 50s in the area. Along with several other former Scottish machines it spent several months in traffic wearing its former operator's livery before being repainted into NSE colours.