31156 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It received a classified repair at Doncaster in February 1985, however by mid 1991 it was stored unserviceable and was withdrawn in August 1991.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.
31156 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It received a classified repair at Doncaster in February 1985, however by mid 1991 it was stored unserviceable and was withdrawn in August 1991.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.
4th July 2009
1970/80's Modern Image - Type 2's
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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for a class 31/1 of just over twenty seven years (with the majority of the 1970/80’s allocated to Immingham) as it was withdrawn from Immingham in February 1988. Unlike a lot of class 31’s once withdrawn was quickly dispatched for scrap and was broken up by CF Booth at Rotherham in September 1988.Previous | NextBy February 1976 class 24’s were becoming rare as withdrawals took there toll, so I was quite surprised to find three class 24’s stabled together in the mist and drizzle at Nuneaton, 7th February 1976. My records state that they are 24046, 24142 and 24136 in that order, however 24136 is clearly an error as it was withdrawn in October 1975 still in green livery. I suspect that “24136” is either 24133 or 24134 or 24137. Originally D5046, 24046 was one of a batch of locomotives built at Crewe works for delivery to depots in East Anglia. The frames were laid down at Crewe works during the summer of 1959, and it entered service in October 1959, allocated to Ipswich MPD. By 1968 it had migrated to its final home of Stoke Division (in reality Crewe Diesel Depot) where it would remain until withdrawn five months after this photograph in July 1976. It was broken up a year later at Swindon works in July 1977.

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