Taken against the sunshine at Essendine 47457 (I believe) leads the 1D01 08.30 King’s Cross to Cleethorpes service. I had positioned myself for this train as it was often Deltic hauled but I was to be disappointed on this day but I am glad that I pressed the shutter on my Pentax ME Super capturing this scene that itself is now historical. On this day I did not manage to get the number of the Class 47 as it passed me but using The Bashing Years website revealed that 47457 worked the balancing 13.20 1A21 Cleethorpes to King’s Cross later so I deduced this was, in all likelihood, the locomotive in this photograph.
|