Wayward Hayward Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 31271 Kimberley 27/03/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr Immaculate 31271 is captured powering up the incline past Kimberley station on the Mid Norfolk Railway on the 27th of March heading the 1330 Wymondham Abbey to Dereham. 31601+271 Kimberley 27/03/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr Classmates 31601 and 31271 make a handsome looking pair as they travel through Kimberley with the 1420 Dereham to Wymondham Abbey services on the 27/03/15. 31271+601 Wymondham 27/03/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr With the imposing Wymondham Abbey in the background, 31271 heads 31601 this time on the return journey on the outskirts of Wymondham. 31271+601 Dereham 28/03/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr Nice to meet you. 31271 drifts past his DCR classmate at Dereham on the Saturday of the Spring Diesel Gala weekend. 31601+47367 Dereham 28/03/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr With the stormy black clouds dominating the skyline, 31601 and 47367 bask in the late afternoon sunshine at Dereham station. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayward Hayward Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) 31601+271 Spooner Row 30/03/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr 31601 with a rubber chicken attached to the front drags classmate 31271 past Spooner Row working the 0Z31 1234 Dereham U.K.F. to Orton Mere. Edited March 30, 2015 by Wayward Hayward 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 31601 with a rubber chicken attached to the front drags classmate 31271 past Spooner Row working the 0Z31 1234 Dereham U.K.F. to Orton Mere. So it's true... there is a prototype for everything! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Here are a few uid 31s.... At Old Oak Common, Westbury and Leeds respectively. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drgj Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Here are some class 31 pics from the late 70s. They are of the Portsmouth Bristol service. the first thhee are at Portsmouth and Southsea high level. The one from above with a signalbox in the background is Fareham. the next is Porstsmouth and Southsea again followed by Portsmouth Harbour and Netley. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Some excellent photos there drgi, I have been inspired to dig out some more of mine. This one is still a mystery. It looks GN&GE but someone suggested the small signalbox was SR. Certainly the headcode suggests an inter-regional special, and in the days before syp it could be anything, really. There seems to be a lot of point rodding for such a small box, and the number of telegraph wires suggests a more important route than might be imagined at first. These are at Immingham - 31195 and 31196 This is 31223 on a Stratford fuel oil trip working. And this is 31260 at Southampton, presumably on a Cardiff - Portsmouth working. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drgj Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 These two 31s I snapped at Exeter are on the Paignton- Oxford some time in the late 70s. Dave 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 It seems somewhat strange on the photo that the leading vehicle behind the locos appears to be coach B. But then this was BR in the 1970s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted July 5, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2015 No different to East Coast sets today! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 31601 on ELR diesel gala,this weekend gone... She realy pulled well on saturday!!! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParkeNd Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Dean Forest Railway's EWS liveried Class 31 at Norchard at the end of the day. It has come in on the low level platform and is running around its train prior to going to bed. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted July 20, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2015 5580, in a loco convoy, at Barrow Hill, today. Cheers, Phil. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 Sounds like Network rail have no more use for there class 31s.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Pike Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Dark and wet conditions this morning but caught 31233 running as 0Z31 Derby RTC - Craigentinny at Clay Cross South Junction. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamesb Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 It's been a while since anything was posted in this thread, but I've got some pics to add, so why not.. Apologies for already posting this pic in the class 37 thread, but 31 296 at Buxton. 31 143 at Manchester Piccadilly with a short parcels working. Buxton again? Surely not...31 180 and un-identified Immingham friend.. No idea.... Well the scrawled inscription on the back of the print says Peterborough 1989, so somewhere in the East between 1988 and 1991! Same back of the pic inscription, but this time its 31 187 with some engineers wagons. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
auld_boot Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 (edited) Close up shots of an unidentified 31 stabled at Taunton, after a shunting session judging by the shunters pole on the buffer/pipes. EDIT: 31280 on 27th March 1986 Edited September 3, 2016 by auld_boot 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest B Exam Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Close up shots of an unidentified 31 stabled at Taunton, after a shunting session judging by the shunters pole on the buffer/pipes. 31highfront.jpg 31lowfront.jpg Your unidentified 31 is 31280 after some detective work.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 A few random class 31s from around the network, I don't think have been seen before. 31205 at Kings Lynn, 3/10/81 31135 at Exeter St Davids 9/3/81 31270 at Gloucester Horton Road, 31/1/80 31xxx at Bedminster heading west on the Down Main, judging from the lack of cleanliness this was probably a Bath Road allocated loco, 11/2/80 And this is a long time Bath Road allocated loco, complete with dirt! 31210 stabled on the Column Road at Hallen Marsh while on local freight trip duty, 5/2/81 cheers 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
auld_boot Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Your unidentified 31 is 31280 after some detective work.... Thanks. I assume you have record of class 31 repaints? If it is 31280 then the photo was taken on 27th March 1986, that's the only record I can find of me seeing 31280 stabled at Taunton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest B Exam Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Thanks. I assume you have record of class 31 repaints? If it is 31280 then the photo was taken on 27th March 1986, that's the only record I can find of me seeing 31280 stabled at Taunton. Yes, I used the overhaul date which is painted on the right lower front side of the yellow warning panel. The only 31/1 to escape Doncaster in Sept 1983 after overhaul was 31280, the rest were being converted to 31/4s at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted September 4, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2016 31440, 31410 Gateshead 20th April 1984. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Goldfish Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 31s seem to have gotten through a large number of Liveries! The ones that intrigue me though is the few that ended up in intercity livery. The reggie rail ones make sense to me (although half the pictures of them still seem to be on freight) and a lot of the cross country services using 31s seem to have railfreight or Dutch liveries when they started replacing rail blue. So what was the intention of the intercity liveried Machines? Was there a regular intercity diagram somewhere that needed an ic 31 rather than an ic 47 and I've just Missed it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted March 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) 31s seem to have gotten through a large number of Liveries! The ones that intrigue me though is the few that ended up in intercity livery. The reggie rail ones make sense to me (although half the pictures of them still seem to be on freight) and a lot of the cross country services using 31s seem to have railfreight or Dutch liveries when they started replacing rail blue. So what was the intention of the intercity liveried Machines? Was there a regular intercity diagram somewhere that needed an ic 31 rather than an ic 47 and I've just Missed it? In the late 80s there was a regular 31 diagram involving the 1106 New Street to Reading followed by the 1334 Reading to Manchester. Never saw an InterCity/Mainline loco on it though. Here's a couple of shots. The first one is 31414 at Didcot East with the up train (16/11/89) and the second (undated) one is the down train leaving Reading with 31423 (+nutter) at the front. Edited March 23, 2017 by Western Aviator 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Cheese Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 IIRC the photo above has appeared before, the animated bloke in the photo apparently being BR staff of some sort too... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted March 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) IIRC the photo above has appeared before, the animated bloke in the photo apparently being BR staff of some sort too... Oops, my apologies! You are quite right; I have posted that picture before (albeit in a different thread). He was well known in the class 37 bashing fraternity and he would often carry a trumpet with him whilst out and about and blast out a fanfare from the droplight window. Edited March 24, 2017 by Western Aviator 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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