Caption:

A wet summer Sunday in 1972 at Crewe Works. All

is quiet and a lone immaculate and repainted Brush Type 4 Class 47 number 1648 has emerged from the Loco Repair Shop, probably on the previous Friday afternoon and it is waiting for the resumption of work on Monday morning to be tested and checked over as ready to return to service. One of the few Class members still running today, it has lived a schizoid life having had three different identities since this shot was taken. In 1974 it became 47064, then that was altered to 47639 before finally being renumbered 47851.