47982 1955-05-09 Heanor Junction
Garratt No.47982 grinding its way "bunker first" down the Midland main line at Heanor Junction on 9th May 1955. The rotating bunker was fitted in 1931, two years after it was built, to improve the coal trimming. No.47982 was the last but one of the class in service and had accumulated 606,777 miles when it was taken out of service at the end of 1957.