GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Station: gwrt1031

A Brush Type 4 Co-Co No D1755 is seen at the head of a southbound Pines Express service passing carriage sidings on 15th February 1965. The 'D' in front of the number was adopted to distinguish the running number from steam locomotives which in later years was superceded by applying numbers after a class number e.g. 47 100 etc. The British Rail Brush Type 4 (later Class 47) was a class of British Railway diesel locomotives developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 Class 47s were built at Crewe Works and at Brush's Falcon Works in Loughborough between 1962 and 1968, which makes them the most numerous class of British mainline diesel locomotive.

They were fitted with the Sulzer 12LDA28 double straight-six unit producing 2,750 bhp (2,050 kW), and have been used on both passenger and freight trains on Britain's railways for over 40 years. Despite the introduction of more modern types of traction, as of 2008 a significant number are still in use, both on the mainline and on heritage railways. As of September 2008, 107 locomotives are still extant, with 28 working on the mainline. For more information on the Brush Type 4 see 'wikipedia's website'.

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