D1031 Western Rifleman - a photo on Flickriver

            Rotting gently in the yard at Swindon Works is the engineless hulk of D1031 Western Rifleman.
This picture was taken at the 'Scrap a Western' day at Swindon Works, my wife and I went with the intention of getting some arty shots for our photographic society competitions. Although these 35mm negatives have been printed 'straight' this is how the picture was presented in the 1976/77 season of inter-club competitions. 
Given that it was a wrong side light picture of a faded matt blue loco I still think this is an improvement on the bland original. I expect die-hard Western fans will disagree but the negative is still capable of printing normally so no harm done.
D1031 Western Rifleman was built at Crewe and entered traffic 20/12/1963. The loco was withdrawn 01/02/1975 and cut 06/10/1976, it ran 1,096,000 miles in service.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 01/05/1976: All rights reserved
   

Taken in: UK / England / Wroughton / Swindon (show map)

Taken on: May 1, 1976

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D1031

Western Rifelman

Swindon Works

Sets appears in: • 1976 railways

Groups appears in: • Abandoned, Neglected, Weathered, or Rusty • Hydraulic Locos of The Western Region more » • (A) BEAUTIFUL RUIN « less

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