47705 passes Shipton at speed on 8 October 1989 with the 1B31 13:45 Paddington to Hereford Network SouthEast service, which although it was late afternoon, was the first down train of the day over the Cotswold Line on a Sunday at this time. As virtually always seemed to be the case in the 1980s, this was running exactly to time, which was lucky considering the encroaching shadows! This is one of the very few occasions on which I saw one of the ex Scottish Region Class 47/7s on the Cotswold Line.