18th October 1995

 

No. 47291 ''The Port of Felixstowe'' is seen at the end of the line at Folkestone Harbour, with its Dollands Moor crew posing in front. © Edward Clarkson

18th October 1995

 

Ready for the off! No. 47291 was about to make the five-mile-long trip from Folkestone Harbour to Dollands Moor. The headboard read ''Dollands Moor International Freight Depot''. Dollands Moor had then become the new yard where rail freight to and from the Continent, via the Channel Tunnel, was checked. Not all freight traffic had transferred to the Chunnel at the time of this photograph, but the last Train Ferry was nigh, being the 13:30 departure from Dover on 22nd December 1995. © Edward Clarkson

18th October 1995

 

A grubby No. 47291, wearing SpeedLink Distribution livery, is seen at Folkestone Harbour, where the canopies still sported their splendid pre-Grouping clover-patterned valances. In spite of the Chunnel opening, Folkestone Harbour retained a limited service from Charing Cross to connect with the ''Sea Cat''. These trains eventually ceased in 2001, the Sea Cat having transferred to Ramsgate in the previous year. What happened to No. 47291? In the month after the above photograph was taken, the locomotive was involved in a collision with another Class 47 at Wembley and was destined never to run in service again. It was not scrapped, however, until 2004. © Edward Clarkson