47712 passes South Moreton on 29 November 1998 with the 1O08 08:25 Wolverhampton to Poole Virgin CrossCountry service. The loco's black livery certainly looks smart (at least when clean, as here), but it looked even better in its former parcels sector livery, which is was what it was wearing when I photographed it from the bridge in the background of this picture, heading in the opposite direction in 1991.