31195 heads east with a train of unfitted 16 ton mineral wagons loaded with coal, 15th April 1977. Built at the Brush Falcon works, Loughborough in 1960 as D5619 it entered traffic in May 1960 allocated to Stratford. It was to have a relatively short career for a class 31/1 of just over twenty seven years (with the majority of the 1970/80’s allocated to Immingham) as it was withdrawn from Immingham in February 1988. Unlike a lot of class 31’s once withdrawn was quickly dispatched for scrap and was broken up by CF Booth at Rotherham in September 1988.
31195 heads east with a train of unfitted 16 ton mineral wagons loaded with coal, 15th April 1977. Built at the Brush Falcon works, Loughborough in 1960 as D5619 it entered traffic in May 1960 allocated to Stratford. It was to have a relatively short career for a class 31/1 of just over twenty seven years (with the majority of the 1970/80’s allocated to Immingham) as it was withdrawn from Immingham in February 1988. Unlike a lot of class 31’s once withdrawn was quickly dispatched for scrap and was broken up by CF Booth at Rotherham in September 1988.
4th July 2009
1970/80's Modern Image - Type 2's
John's Railway Gallery @ fotopic.net
Lincoln MPD from the late 1950’s through to closure in the late 1980’s will always be remembered as the home of the class 114 DMU fleet. In actual fact it also had an allocation of class 105 DMU,s to supplement the class 114 fleet. Besides being predominantly a DMU depot it was also home to a small fleet of class 03 and 08 shunters for duties around the yards and stations at Lincoln itself as well as at Newark and Boston docks. A visit on the 27th July 1969 found the following on shed, class 03 (2024/26), class 08 (3347, 3533), class 10 (3613/14/18/19, 4065/75). In addition the depot would provide fuel and stabling facilities for main line locomotives, outstationed from Immingham for local trip duties and on the 8th February 1976 we find 31113 so employed and stabled outside the shed. 31113 was built at the Brush Falcon works, Loughborough in 1959 as D5531 and was originally fitted with a Mirrlees 12 cylinder power unit. However after a couple of years in service this engine started to develop major problems and it was decided to re-engine all two hundred and sixty two locomotives of the class with a 1470bhp English Electric 12SVT power unit, this being undertaken between 1964-69. After a working life of forty years 31113 was withdrawn in February 1999. Following withdrawal it was stored at Old Oak Common until purchased for preservation and moved to the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway. However in 2007 it was sold to HNRC who then sold it for scrap and it was broken up in August 2008 by EMR, Kingsbury.Previous | Next31156 heads towards Doncaster at Stainforth with a short train of bogie bolster wagons early in the morning of the 15th April 1977. 31156 had been built as D5574 at Loughborough and entered traffic in December 1959 allocated to Norwich. By the early 1970’s it had transferred to Immingham where it would spend most of its subsequent carear with short spells at Thornaby and Healey Mills. It received a classified repair at Doncaster in February 1985, however by mid 1991 it was stored unserviceable and was withdrawn in August 1991. It would survive another four years before being broken up by MC Metals, Glasgow in September 1995.

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