wrecked after severe fire damage at Haughley Junction while the locomotive was hauling a Liverpool Street to Norwich express. It was withdrawn in June 1971 and cut up in September. 11 June 1972: D1630 was involved in the Eltham Well Hall rail crash in which six people were killed. The locomotive was repaired, but much later in its life when numbered 47849, it was withdrawn from the Class 57 rebuilding programme after damage was discovered which was thought to have dated back to the accident. 25 August 1974: 47236 was hauling a passenger train that passed a signal at danger and was derailed at . Eighteen people were injured. 16 March 1976: 47274 collided with a lorry that had fallen from a bridge onto the line near Eastriggs. The drivers of both the train and the lorry were killed. 5 September 1977: 47402 was hauling a mail train when it was in a head-on collision with a diesel multiple unit at Farnley Junction, Leeds, West Yorkshire due to a signalling fault. Both drivers were killed and fifteen were injured. 22 October 1979: 47208 suffered severe damage in a fatal accident at Invergowrie in Scotland. It was hauling a Glasgow to Aberdeen service which collided with a local train which had stopped in front. The locomotive was withdrawn in January 1980 and cut up in April. 8 December 1981: 47409 was hauling a York to Liverpool express which derailed north of . Whilst the locomotive stayed upright, all the carriages de-railed and carriages six and seven rolled down a steep bank. This resulted in 24 people requiring hospitalisation with nine of those being serious. One man later died of his injuries. The cause of the derailment was found to be a crack in one of the rails of the Up Normanton line. 9 December 1983: 47299 (formerly 47216) was involved in a serious accident at Wrawby Junction in Lincolnshire, when whilst hauling an oil train, the locomotive collided with a local train resulting in the death of a passenger. It later emerged that the locomotive's renumbering was allegedly due to a warning given to BR by a clairvoyant who claimed to have foreseen a serious accident involving a locomotive numbered "47216". 30 July 1984: 47707 Holyrood was propelling the 17:30 express from Edinburgh to Glasgow from the rear, when the train collided with a cow near Polmont and was derailed, resulting