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D1933 operating during the Mid Norfolk Railway's 30th. Anniversary event.
D1933, works number 695, was released from the Brush Traction Works at Loughborough on 2nd. March 1966, and allocated to Bristol Bath Road (82A).
On 8th. June 1984, it was named 'Aldeburgh Festival' at Liverpool Street Station by Dr. Elizabeth Legg-Schwarzkopf, President of the Friends of Aldeburgh Festival. The locomotive held this name until September 1993.
Over the course of its working life it was transferred to Bescot, Tinsley, Gateshead, Holbeck, Stratford, York, Thornaby, Old Oak Common & Crewe.
47596 was stored in April 1999 and was then withdrawn from traffic on 18th. October 2002 due to being a surplus to requirements. It was then purchased by the Stratford 47 Group. Over the course of its working life D1933 was renumbered 47255 and 47596.
In 2020, 47596 was placed into the Dereham Traction & Rolling Stock Restoration & Maintenance Shed where she received maintenance work and a repainted back into her original Two-Tone BR Green livery which it would of worn in 1966.
The Mid Norfolk Railway announced in November 2024 that it was purchasing 47596, and her sister 47580, from The Stratford 47 Group.
Sign for 2023 Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England, UK
The Wymondham Church Lane crossing keeper signals the all-clear to the driver of 47 596 'Aldeburgh Festival' during the Mid-Norfolk Railway's Stratford 47 Running Weekend. The Brush Type 4 will now draw forward into Wymondham Abbey station, before departing with the heritage line's 11.40 service to Dereham. @11.36
The driver of 47 596 'Aldeburgh Festival' looks for the guard's signal after arrival at Wymondham Abbey station with the Mid-Norfolk Railway's 10.30 service from Dereham.
Once the all-clear is given, the Brush Type 4 will take the stock over the level crossing before using the loop beyond to run around the train prior to regaining the station to await departure with the 11.40 return trip. Captured during one of the 11-and-a-half-mile heritage line's 2024 special events: a Stratford 47 Running Weekend. @11.10
Dereham 13th October 2022.
Class 47 number 47596 "Aldeburgh Festival" at Old Oak Common on 11th February, 1991.
This locomotive would later go into preservation on the Mid Norfolk Railway.
British Railways Class 47 47596 'Aldeburgh Festival' with NSE Livery at Stratford T.M.D. in London on the 7th April 1990.
Ely Dock Junction on a fine morning in August 1989 and NSE liveried 47596 'Aldeburgh Festival' leaves Ely station passing an inbound service with the 07.45 Kings Lynn - London Liverpool Street.
The fine array of semaphores were swept away when electrification work commenced later that year.
I found 47596 Aldeburgh Festival sitting at Liverpool Street one evening in 1986 after the electrics had taken over, and the hotel had lost its greatness
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31190 leads 73210, 50026, 47596 & 47579 with 0Z48 Heywood - Wymondham loco move after the East Lancashire Railway's diesel gala and is pictured at Sileby . 08/07/2013.
