15 years ago today, conveniently a Friday, saw the test run from Eastleigh Works for the newly overhauled 47727 and 47749, for Colas Rail.
One week to a bigger anniversary.
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47749 Demelza leads the test train into Romsey. This example was rescued after a month in the EMR scrapyard at Kingsbury, earlier in 2007.