Photo © Paul Wraithmell

47114 along with a sister loco, date not known. Not much info on the photo itself though you may find the
following information very interesting indeed!
New to traffic at Tinsley as D1702 on 04/09/62 (about the time that the new HM yard was near to completion).
D1702 was the first of five of the experimental class 48s, as it was fitted with a Sulzer 12LVA engine with a V-12
piston configuration, the others being D1703-6. Conversion from class 48 to class 47 was undertaken at Crewe
Works between July 1968 and December 1969. The V-12 engine was returned to France where it was fitted into
a 68000 series loco.
The standard 12LDA28C engine D1702 received was salvaged from the unfortunate D1908, which on April 8th
1969, AM10 class EMU number E066, on the 14:15 Wolverhampton to Coventry service passed a signal set to
'Danger' between Monmore Green and Ettingshall Road stations, and crossed from the 'Up' line to the 'Down' line
where, at a speed of 45mph, it collided head-on with D1908 at the head of a fully loaded 32-wagon Chesterfield
to Wolverhampton steel train. The driving car of the AM10, number M76150, rose up and crashed through the
cab of the 47 rupturing its fuel tank, and then fouled the overhead 25kV wires. As a result a fire broke out
causing further damage to both vehicles. The secondman on D1908 made a dramatic last second leap to safety,
but his driver, and that of the EMU, were both killed. Official report of this accident can be found here.
The info in the above paragraph is an extract from the excellent class47 website.
Re-numbered from D1702 to 47114 in March 1974 the loco remained as 47114 until its demise at the hands of
C.F. Booth, Rotherham in March 2005 despite a last ditch attempt to preserve it.