Early days on the Manchester waste trains and the driver of 47289 opens the throttle though Victoria station to tackle Platting Bank with a train of refuse containers in August 1982. This was long before the complete rebuild of the station see image 32874. 47289 lasted in service until 2003 and was only cut up in 2010 in Stockton.
Location: Manchester Victoria
Original line: Manchester and Leeds Railway
Photographer: Mark Bartlett
Contact photographer: Mark Bartlett
Date: 26/08/1982
Image number: 41131