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Brush & BR Crewe Type 4 Locomotives (Class 47)
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TOPS Class 47 models
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With over 500 Brush type 4 locomotives built at BR Crewe Works and at Brush Engineering in
Loughborough during the 1960s, it's no surprise to see a large contingent of them at Hornsey Road
Depot. This aerial view captured by Paul shows several examples awaiting their next turn of duty.
D1100 is well suited to the 1L34 Down Yorkshire Pullman, made up entirely of Metro-Cammell mark 1
vehicles and a lone BG in the middle.
Heljan Brush type 4 number 1510 is ready for top link service on the East Coast main line, seen here
waiting to leave the depot. It's interesting to note that after overhaul and repaint at Crewe
in the late 1960s, the data panel which had previously been located on the cabside, had moved
to the bodyside under the number by the early 1970s. Being ETH fitted, it will be useful for
hauling mk2d coaches, which were new into service in 1971.
Holbeck allocated 1516 is a dual braked, dual heat Brush type 4 (Heljan),
seen here rushing the 1L29 to Leeds with a rake of air braked mark 2a coaching stock.
1518 (Heljan) at the head of a rake of mark 2a coaching stock at Hornsey Broadway.
1530 is seen heading for Stratford International Freightliner Terminal, the bogies showing signs
of fracture testing. The headcode is showing it as a Liverpool Street to Norwich passenger, as
the crew haven't bothered to change it (which wasn't uncommon).
Another Heljan Brush type 4, this time number 1628 allocated to D05 Stoke Division is a
vacuum only example, hauling mark 1 coaching stock.
From the Shenston Road fleet, Heljan model 1655 stretching its legs with a rake of mark 1 coaching stock.
From the Eastwell fleet is 1662, a double motored Lima model.
This pair of Heljan class 47s typify the early 1970s, with them both wearing two-tone green
livery with full yellow ends (GFYE).
Brush 4 - 1665 is seen again hauling coke wagons at Shenston Road.
D1669 'Python' (circa 1969/70) at Aberath. A Bachmann model, work included removing
rivet detail around front windows, changing boiler port for this particular prototype,
removing excess detail from bogie sideframes as this wasn't to be a class 57, and
finally doing some detail work to backdate the tanks, which I was lucky to have a spare
one from a Heljan model, so was just a case of swapping over. Name and works plates
from the Shawplan range.
1674 Samson passes through Shenston Road with the Gulf Tanks - repainted Bachman class A
tanks and scratchbuilt class B tanks on the rear.
With the motive power depot at Hornsey Road nearby, it's quite a common sight to see light
locomotive movements as witnessed by this Brush 4 pairing 1676 Vulcan & 1910 (both double
motored Lima models).
Another view of 1676 at Hornsey Road depot.
Brush 4 number 1720 (Heljan) - Shenston Road.
1790 heading the 6E43 empty MGR service back to The Midlands from Northfleet cement works (Heljan)
was one of a small handful of Class 47/3 freight loco's to be fitted with sand boxes.
1801 is a visitor from the Shenston Road fleet, representing 47/3 and having been allocated
to D05 Stoke Division, D16 Nottingham Division, and Tinsley in a short space of time during the early 1970s.
Brush 4 - 1813 waits with the Murgatroyd tanks, as it passes through Shenston Road on a freightliner service
Brush 4 - 1932 in charge of a southbound Pullman service at Hornsey Broadway.
1957 is another Heljan model. It looks like a Brush 4 and the model's 1A1-1A1 wheel
arrangement is more powerful and surefooted than a rigid all-wheel drive bogie found
on some other models.
Also new into the Shenston Road loco fleet is 47005, looking shiny and bright in
ex-works condition, seen here at Hornsey Road depot (Bachmann SF model).
Canada Road's 47088 Samson (Hornby).
47091 'Thor' was a particular favourite, as it hauled a mystery trip (ending up at Margate),
sometime during the mid '70s, and was in a filthy external condition.
Canada Road's 47218 (1868) is a Hornby model undergoing maintenance and fitting of new cooling fans.
47229 (1905) is a ViTrains model, seen here at the head of a freightliner working.
47229 heading north past the goods loops near Shenston Road.
47229 - this time on a air braked van train at Shenston Road station.
Canada Street's two-tone green Hornby 47 367 with the completed fan and underframe
enhancements, is seen running through Wibdenshaw.
47369 is an early Bachmann Class 47 from the Eastwell fleet that first appeared on Wibdenshaw,
converted to EM gauge using the original reprofiled wheels and some heavy weathering from a
photograph taken during its days as a freight engine.
TOPS period with 47450 & 47229 in charge (both ViTrains).
47450 (ViTrains) - Shenston Road.
