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47121 powers past Lillie Bridge on the West London line with 6M07, a Dover to Willesden Speedlink service in August 1989.

This is a wider view of the same location I visited in the summer of 1988 ( flic.kr/p/2kgix5Z ), showing the iconic Empress State Building, which opened in 1961 and in 2021 is used by the Metropolitan Police Service. In 2021 there is a private bar at the top of the building, called 'The Orbit'.

47121 exhibits a grubby silver painted roof, marking this locomotive as a former Stratford-based locomotive. 47121 moved from Stratford to the Tinsley-based Railfreight Distribution fleet in May 1989, a few months before this photograph.

Taken on: August 10, 1989

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