Archive Gen

  1. Pre-TOPS no D5801 Vacuum Braked.
  2. Entered traffic 08/06/61.
  3. Works no …Brush 302.
  4. Re-numbered 31271 .
  5. Withdrawn from traffic 01/05/97.
  6. Reason for withdrawal ..Cylinder Liners seals leaking.
  7. Final Passenger working Charter train ‘Multiple Marauder’ from Kensington Olympia to Crewe with 31308 ..10/08/96.
  8. Final Main Line locomotive operating with Vacuum brakes only.

Depot Allocations

  1. Stratford 08/06/61.
  2. March 06/62.
  3. Lincoln 08/63.
  4. Immingham 05/69.
  5. Tinsley 03/70.
  6. Holbeck 10/72.
  7. Tinsley 05/77.
  8. Healey Mills 10/80.
  9. March 09/84.
  10. Bescot 10/87.
  11. Stratford 11/88.
  12. Tinsley 01/89.
  13. Stratford 03/89.
  14. Immingham 11/90.
  15. Bescot 01/91.
  16. Thornaby 04/91.
  17. Bescot 07/91.
  18. Toton Stored Serviceable 03/94..re-instated 06/95.
  19. Toton Stored Serviceable 19/01/96..re-instated 07/10/96.
  20. Toton Stored Serviceable 09/10/96..re-instated 14/10/96.
  21. Toton 19/02/97.
  22. Toton Stored Unserviceable 01/05/97.

Most Notable Working

In multiple with 31210 on a Sherbourne – Waterloo ‘Schoolex’…28/03/79.

31271 Gallery

Standing inside the now closed Thornaby Depot , 31271 receives attention..early 1980s photo Andy Dalby

Vacuum braked 31271 on an inspection saloon en-route to Marylebone at Acton Canal Wharf..04/06/86

‘Red stripe’ livered 31271 passes through Lincoln Central with the Gainsboro – Immingham Oil tanks..1988

‘Construction’ livered 31271 with 31294 at Forders , Bedford with 6A15 to Willesden..19/04/90

Having a rest , 31271 stabled at Rugby ..1992

At Peterboro for weekend engineering trains , 31271 stands with other Class 31s..28/07/94 photo Martin Bray