47549 brings an unidentified up working into Newton Abbot station on the up relief line having just passed a fine array of GW lower quadrant signals and the West signal box. To the right of the train is the superb bracket holding two main dolls and two short dolls. There are some permissive reversing arms on the bracket along with a pair of route describers so that the backing drivers know where the signalman is sending them. The gantry to the left still exists today but not over railway lines but a stone's throw away from this location at the entrance to the appropriately named Brunel Road Industrial Estate. I took a photograph standing on about the same spot during a visit to the station in 2017, see.....
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47549 had an interesting history as it was one of the three Class 47s that were marooned on Anglesey following the disastrous 1970 bridge fire and being repatriated by boat to Barrow-in-Furness.
