The Sulzer engine throbs away, as we look inside the cab of class47 D1842 . This was the first class47 to be preserved and is a regular at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in Derbyshire, | Adrian Watson

The sound of a class 47 locomotive, with it’s Sulzer 12LDA28-C engine. Sulzer developed a series of rail traction engines in the 1930s and 1940s which were used extensively in diesel locomotives in the UK, Europe and South America. A small number were used in locomotives in Africa and Australia. The Sulzer LDA (prefixed by the number of cylinders, and with a suffix related to the cylinder bore) engine was widely used by British Rail and Romanian Railways. Many were built under licence by Vickers

Class 47 locomotive coupling up to a heritage passenger train at Wirksworth station in Derbyshire. | Adrian Watson