Class 47/7 No. 47712 Lady Diana Spencer in Scotrail livery leaves Glasgow Queen Street for Edinburgh Waverley on 10th June 1985. New in August 1966 to the Midland Region conversion followed to an ETH loco with renumbering under TOPS as 47505 in February 1974. Push pull fitting and further renumbering to 47712 was in November 1979. A Haymarket loco at this time, June 1985, she was mainly to be found on the Glasgow to Edinburgh corridor but would also turn up in Aberdeen or Inverness occassionally. Withdrawn from Kingmoor in May 2012 after use by DRS finds 47712 now, December 2013, in preservation at the Heritage Centre Crewe in DRS Compass Livery.
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