Class 47's - WARNING 3 hours of Neighbour annoying 'Spoon' action!
They produced 2,750 bhp and were mixed traffic locomotives. This 3 part 3 hour collection, we see various examples at work on passenger, freight and then post services. The passenger trains seen is this video are mainly
Railtours and 'Footex' and 'Rugexs' which were special trains put on to get people to Football and Rugby games at mainly the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. The freight mainly Freightliner traffic on the Welsh Marches in the 1990's.
Part 3 is the Class working on Royal Mail post trains, until 2003 when the post operations ceased. Most of these post services would have been travelling from Wales and the West (Bristol and Beyond) and heading north over the Welsh Marches line.
Most of this footage is at Hereford and within the locality, and some further a field in South Wales, North West and West Midlands fimed from 1993 until around 2008.
This video features a collection of British Rail Class 47 locomotives in operation across various services, including passenger, freight, and Royal Mail post trains. The footage includes examples of these locomotives working on special event trains such as Railtours, 'Footex', and 'Rugex' aimed at transporting fans to football and rugby matches, primarily at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. Freight operations depicted mainly involve Freightliner traffic on the Welsh Marches route during the 1990s. The video also shows Class 47 locomotives operating Royal Mail services until 2003. Much of the footage is captured around Hereford and other locations including Crewe, Loughborough, and Rugby.
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