31144 March - a photo on Flickriver

31144 March

            You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, so they say. I'd like to think I took this from March station car park because otherwise I'd be looking directly into the sun ? On the other hand it perhaps just arrived as I did, or maybe I was just too lazy !

 31144 it is and this is Sunday teatime on 21st September 1980, the train being the 13.05 Birmingham - Norwich. Allocated to Immingham, it was not a regular on passenger workings at this time. Its main claim to fame is that it was the last Class 31 to be built with discs instead of a headcode panel in October 1959. It lasted in traffic until the end of 1995. Rescue was at hand though and 31144 went to the Weardale Railway, but not for long. It was scrapped in 2014 joining the list of eleven locos which entered preservation but never survived.

Taken on: September 21, 1980

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31144

1980

Birmingham

Norwich

Class 31 « less

Sets appears in: • Railways 1980 • BR Class 31 more » • Vintage BR Diesel Pictures « less

Groups appears in: • UK Class 31 • Rail UK: BR Blue Livery more » • Banger blue 31101-327 • Class 31s at work, East Anglia to Birmingham • BR Diesels in the 1980s • Loco hauled passenger services in East Anglia, the 1980's « less

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