50 years ago today D1500 made its first mainline movement, from Loughborough to Crewe. To mark this anniversary, here are my first two Class 47 photos.
I believe that this was a 47/3, at Aberdour in August 1974, heading 7Axx, a ScR class 7 freight train to Aberdeen area. I believe that this is likely one of 47317 or 47318, then allocated to ED and 9 years old at that time.
47313 (then 10 years old and allocated to Tinsley) at a foggy Berwick-upon-Tweed in July 1975, with 1L61 an Eastern Region train preparing to return back to Leeds.