Taken from the window of Heywood Road Junction signal box,

47499 leads the 1B44 09.30 Paddington to Penzance. The train is about to rattle over the point work as it takes the Westbury cut-off as it continues its journey westwards. The 400 foot high Westbury cement works chimney dominates this scene. In September 2016, this chimney, that was part of the scenery of Wiltshire for over forty years, was demolished following the closure of the works in 2009. The class 47 did not live quite that long, after becoming 47709, exactly a year after this picture was taken, it went on to be become one of the short-lived Pullman machines being named ‘Dionysos’ by Fragonset in 2001. Unfortunately, it became ‘surplus to requirements’ and was stored eventually being cut up at Eastleigh in September 2012.