Class 31s 31460 & 31283 - Hull Botanic Gardens (1986)
31460 & 31283 are captured parked at Hull Botanic Gardens on Christmas Day 1986. Glimpsed in the background is 31445.
31460 was built at the Brush Traction works, Loughborough, and entered service as D5696 in May 1961, then became 31266 under TOPS in 1974. By 1984 it was a Tinsley loco, then was taken into Doncaster Works (November 1984) for conversion to a 31/4 (ETH) and gained the new number 31460, plus a new depot; Immingham. It went on to be a regular sight on the Trans-Pennine runs from both Hull and Cleethorpes until disappearing to Old Oak Common in 1989, then onto Bescot in 1990. 31460 continued working up to the end of 1992, after which it was withdrawn and placed in storage at Bescot - joining others there in the scrap line. Although purchased by Fragonset in 1999, nothing actually changed, and 31460 continued to decay with its old BR Blue paintwork now very faded. By mid 2002 it had been moved to Barrow Hill, remaining there until November 2006, when it was dragged to T J Thomson & Son at Stockton-on-Tees and scrapped by early January 2007.
Note the small dent by the numbers - This remained untouched for the next few years until someone decided it needed tidying up.
31283 was built at the Brush Traction works, Loughborough, and entered service as D5815 in September 1961. Throughout its early career it remained allocated within the Sheffield region, was renumbered to 31283 under TOPS in 1973, then headed north to Thornaby when allocated there in 1974. At the time of this photo it was still a Thornaby engine and, from early 1988, ran with large bodyside numbers but with normal sized BR arrows. By the end of 1989 it was withdrawn from service at Thornaby but was soon re-instated - only to be withdrawn again in April 1991. It then languished (in a very poor state) at Stratford Depot until eventually being broken up there by HNRC in March 2001.
Camera: Pentax MX | 35mm Negative
Date: 25 December 1986 | © TJW: ROTWSI
Class 31s 31460 & 31283 - Hull Botanic Gardens (1986)
31460 & 31283 are captured parked at Hull Botanic Gardens on Christmas Day 1986. Glimpsed in the background is 31445.
31460 was built at the Brush Traction works, Loughborough, and entered service as D5696 in May 1961, then became 31266 under TOPS in 1974. By 1984 it was a Tinsley loco, then was taken into Doncaster Works (November 1984) for conversion to a 31/4 (ETH) and gained the new number 31460, plus a new depot; Immingham. It went on to be a regular sight on the Trans-Pennine runs from both Hull and Cleethorpes until disappearing to Old Oak Common in 1989, then onto Bescot in 1990. 31460 continued working up to the end of 1992, after which it was withdrawn and placed in storage at Bescot - joining others there in the scrap line. Although purchased by Fragonset in 1999, nothing actually changed, and 31460 continued to decay with its old BR Blue paintwork now very faded. By mid 2002 it had been moved to Barrow Hill, remaining there until November 2006, when it was dragged to T J Thomson & Son at Stockton-on-Tees and scrapped by early January 2007.
Note the small dent by the numbers - This remained untouched for the next few years until someone decided it needed tidying up.
31283 was built at the Brush Traction works, Loughborough, and entered service as D5815 in September 1961. Throughout its early career it remained allocated within the Sheffield region, was renumbered to 31283 under TOPS in 1973, then headed north to Thornaby when allocated there in 1974. At the time of this photo it was still a Thornaby engine and, from early 1988, ran with large bodyside numbers but with normal sized BR arrows. By the end of 1989 it was withdrawn from service at Thornaby but was soon re-instated - only to be withdrawn again in April 1991. It then languished (in a very poor state) at Stratford Depot until eventually being broken up there by HNRC in March 2001.
Camera: Pentax MX | 35mm Negative
Date: 25 December 1986 | © TJW: ROTWSI