Penzance and Plymouth 19/03/1994

Featuring:
PENZANCE:
47475 Restive arriving with parcels service
PLYMOUTH:
47761 arriving with parcels train
47829 arriving with Intercity crosscountry service
HST arrivals and departures
47829 Departing for the North

[@WildB06]

I had just joined the navy then and was based in Plymouth having left the family home up north. I remember there was a 47 hauled service that ran direct to Liverpool Lime Street on a Friday afternoon. Travelling north on a weekend, to my everlasting regret, I would avoid the 47 in favour of an HST with more comfy mk3 coaches. 47's were so ubiquitous back then that I mistakenly thought they'd be around forever. If only I'd known they were in their twilight and would all be gone barely a decade later... I would have made the most of it.

[@ClydebridgeStation]

47475 was more famous, for being the only 47 to carry the provincial Trans Pennine livery, when it appeared in that scheme at Glasgow Springburn in spring 1989. Transferred to Parcels sector in October 1990, and lost its trans pennine livery in May 1992 for RES livery. It's on my layout, in its Trans pennine livery!

[@grahamhearn19]

Last 50 tour wasn't it?

[@Dreadnought-is8sy]

Nearly. This was the day of the Cornish Caper railtour from York to Penzance. 50033 ran a short tour from York to Scarborough the following day (prior to moving to the NRM). The final tour came one week later (50 Terminator) from Waterloo to Penzance, before returning to Paddington.

[@TheSmittenman]

Back in the day when Plymouth was a lot busier station :(