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D1895 / 47376
Built - Falcon Works, Loughborough

Works No. - BS657
Accepted into traffic - 1st September 1965 as D1895
Renumbered - February 1974
Brakes - Dual brakes fitted from new
Train heat - None
Livery - Two Tone Green from new, BR Blue, Triple Grey w/Freightliner Decals August 95, 
Name - Unoficial name "SKYLARK" applied at Tinsley TMD on 21st Nov 1989. Names removed during overhaul August 1995. Named "Freightliner 1995" at Crewe Basford Hall open day on 28th August 1995. Names removed at Southampton Maritime between June and October 2001
Last working - 8th June 2001 : 20.27 Leeds - Southampton freightliner (4O07), in the Oxford area a piston dropped into the sump writing off the Sulzer 12LDA 28C engine. Assisted to Southampton by 57001

 

Notes - 

  • As per all of the 47/3 fleet, 47376 was built without train heating although the loco did carry boiler water tanks and a through steam pipe from new. These were removed during successive overhauls

  • 47376 was the first loco to carry Freightliner Triple Grey livery

47376 Passenger workings list
Allocation History
Tinsley (41A)  1/9/65 Immingham 5/80 Stored unserviceable          2/6/94
Holbeck (55A) 3/66 Crewe Diesel 13/5/84 Reinstated 24/1/95
Knottingley 3/67 Cardiff Canton 10/5/87 Crewe Diesel 10/95
Thornaby (51L) 10/71 Tinsley 15/5/88 Freightliner Diesel (FD) 10/6/98
Knottingley 5/75 Stored unserviceable 26/8/93 Stored unserviceable 11/6/01
Healey Mills 8/79 Reinstated 25/2/94

Sold for preservation       21/11/02

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