47714 approaches Didcot North Junction on 21 July 1990 with the 1F39 09:00 Oxford to Paddington Network SouthEast service. Class 47s had taken over the last Class 50 Thames Valley diagrams just a week earlier, but at least there was still a couple of year's worth of loco haulage out of Paddington, before the Class 166 DMUs took over.