Given the comment from the photographer and the condition of the paintwork of that loco and the one to the left (47231, with BR blue showing prominently through shabby RfD livery), I did wonder whether that was a final photo on a scrap run; but no, both survived in service for another three years or so (and 47492 survived out of use at Carnforth until cut for scrap exactly a year ago).
Based on the surmised date, both must instead have been en route to a repaint: 47492 into RES, 47231 into Freightliner grey.
37431 "Bullidae" (pictured below on the right) is the latest addition to my fleet: A resprayed and lightly weathered version of one of Bachmann's initial class 37 releases from twenty years ago, that corrects the pearl white lower bodyside of the as-released model, that was an EWS-era affectation and hence erroneous as the loco's Shell name was removed at the end of April 1993.
The appearance of the class 37s in my fleet is based on how they were around spring 1993, so nameplates but no ploughs is correct for this recent Inverness reallocation. 37404 "Ben Cruachan" on the left, another Bachmann renumber, is correctly ploughed up.
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