Brush Type Fours at Ludlow

We called in on Ludlow station while we were on a youth hostelling tour by bike on 12/4/65. By chance, I photographed a northbound express behind a two-tone green locomotive powering through the station without stopping. The Brush type fours were then quite new. The Class 47s, as they later became, were built between 1962 and 1968 at Crewe works and at Brush’s own HQ at Loughborough.

On 29/7/23, 58 years on, I returned to Ludlow station again, this time to photograph the returning Shrewsbury to Weymouth special Pullman train after a day out at the seaside. It was topped and tailed by examples of the class - one two-tone green, one BR blue, large logo - though sadly the light had faded by 10.00 p.m., so the resulting shots are a little blurred.