With its Spanner Mk. III boiler working well, 47115 is seen at York leading the 1S60 20.00 London King's Cross-Aberdeen. It was always nice to see a Stratford Class 47 as the depot seemed to turn their engines out looking smarter than the rest. In addition, they also personalised their engines with such things as their trademark silver roofs as shown here. Time exposure photographs utilising long shutter speeds, I have in my records that this one was about ten seconds at f8, bring a whole new atmosphere to railway scenes as well as strange effects such as the reflection of something or other, often with a ghostly appearance, like in the bottom right corner.
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