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FGW Loco-Hauled Services Class 47/57 2001/2002

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Barryp39

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Good afternoon guys hope you are all well. I'm looking for some info for the time stamp of 2001 &2002 for the GW Loco movements around this time. I think there was a 1C50 2002 and but can't think of what it did and where it stopped if any one could help me out i would be vary appreciate and thank you now.

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There must be a proper list somewhere, others will have one, but a search for "Great Western 2002" on www.hondawanderer.com brings up many results some of which 47s, but the precise and thorough nature of Martin Loader's annotations (and his sheer proliferousness of his photography in those parts!) mean that is likely to find some examples, and the page titles always start with the loco number.

For example

Here is 47830 on 1C33 12:33 PAD-PLY in August 2002 http://www.hondawanderer.com/47830_Oath_2002.htm
Here is 47811 on 1C17 in August 2002 http://www.hondawanderer.com/47811_Bruton_2002.htm and July 2001 http://www.hondawanderer.com/47811_Padworth_2001.htm
Here is 47832 on 1C44 in December 2001 http://www.hondawanderer.com/47832_Circourt_2001.htm

There's also a post on rmweb here which doesn't include the second two but adds 1A83: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/151605-great-western-class-47s-in-the-90s/

I have a copy of Class One from 2002 with the following diagrams in. There was four diagrams. 1C33 12:33 Paddington to Plymouth, 1A83 16:38 Plymouth to Paddington, 1A99 22:00 Penzance to Paddington and 1C99 Paddington to Penzance sleepers.
 

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Had loco haulage on 16.33 Paddington - Penzance and 06.30 Plymouth - Paddington (via Bristol) in July 2001.
 

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Were the FGW loco hauled workings of the period simply HST substitutions, or had some LHCS diagrams always existed alongside HSTs since the 70s?
 

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Were the FGW loco hauled workings of the period simply HST substitutions, or had some LHCS diagrams always existed alongside HSTs since the 70s?
The LHCS substitutions on the West of England workings were to release HST sets to work new/additional Cardiff services due to late delivery of the Class 180s.
 

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Were the FGW loco hauled workings of the period simply HST substitutions, or had some LHCS diagrams always existed alongside HSTs since the 70s?
A few services - initially mainly Paddington-Torbay - reverted to 47/50 haulage when some of the WR HST fleet were pinched for use on the MML. Not sure how many went - five or six? XC lost some at the same time
 

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The odd train hung on into the 1990s - but I think there had been a gap before these ones came in. I think they were as a result of the franchise agreement requiring a few extra services than the 125s were able to cope with - or possibly HSTs being used on Oxford trains to counter the coaches.
 

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The odd train hung on into the 1990s - but I think there had been a gap before these ones came in. I think they were as a result of the franchise agreement requiring a few extra services than the 125s were able to cope with - or possibly HSTs being used on Oxford trains to counter the coaches.
HSTs on Oxford didn't happen until later as Thames Trains was separate until 2004 (and even then there wasn't an integrated timetable until later). The final LHCS workings were partly down to the delay introducing the 180s.

I think there was a gap in the 1990s however between the 62xx coaches going away (other than a residual fleet for the Night Riviera) and the refurbishment of further Mk2d coaches for FGW.
 
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