Class 56 56109 & Class 31 31430 - Immingham (1987)
The notes for this slide read: Class 56 56109 & Class 31 31430 at Immingham, 11 October 1987
Class 56 56109: There is not much to write about this engine except that it was one of the batch built at Doncaster Works and entered traffic in August 1982. It is seen here wearing its original BR Blue large logo livery, which it kept until an overhaul at Doncaster works (January 1991) saw it acquire the RF two-tone grey livery complete with Coal Sector logos and Toton cooling towers plaques. This livery lasted until April 1995, when it was given the Load Haul livery. 56109 ran its final years of service in this guise and was withdrawn in December 2003, then placed into storage at several sites (including Thornaby, Ferrybridge, and then Crewe) until it eventually fell under the cutter's torch at TJ Thomson, Stockton, during May 2011.
Class 31 31430 was built by Brush Traction at the Falcon Works, Loughborough, and entered service in April 1961 numbered D5695. Its problematic Mirrlees 12 cylinder power unit was changed for a 1470 bhp English Electric 12SVT power unit at Doncaster Works during November 1968, and the loco was reclassified as a Class 31/1. It was then renumbered to 31265 under TOPs in April 1974 but was then placed into storage at Swindon Works in October 1980 (following an accident?) and then withdrawn two months later. However, in September 1982, it was reinstated and later moved from Swindon Works to Doncaster Works, where it was fitted with ETH equipment during its conversion to Class 31/4. The loco was renumbered 31430 and returned to traffic in November 1983.
In October 1988, 31430 was named 'Sister Dora' (red nameplates) during an open day at Bescot Yard, then it was renumbered to 31530 after the ETH was isolated in December 1989, and during early 1990, it acquired the Civil Engineers' 'Dutch' livery complete with black 'Sister Dora' nameplates. Unfortunately, in November 1995, it was placed into storage at Bescot, and the nameplates were removed shortly afterwards.
After becoming an EWS loco during October 1996, it was restored to traffic (September 1997) but then returned to storage at Bescot in January 1999. June 2000 saw the loco move to Springs Branch CRDC, where it was officially withdrawn in October 2001. Fortunately, in December 2002, it then moved to Dereham, Mid-Norfolk Railway, for preservation. By now the loco was in a very faded state but was later sold (August 2013) to Martin Staniforth and moved to the Mangapps Railway Museum, where it was later restored as 31430 and renamed 'Sister Dora'. Now resplendent in its BR Blue livery, 31430 resides at the Spa Valley Railway.
(Photographer: Unknown)
35mm Slide | Date: 11 October 1987 | © TJW: ROTWSI
Class 56 56109 & Class 31 31430 - Immingham (1987)
The notes for this slide read: Class 56 56109 & Class 31 31430 at Immingham, 11 October 1987
Class 56 56109: There is not much to write about this engine except that it was one of the batch built at Doncaster Works and entered traffic in August 1982. It is seen here wearing its original BR Blue large logo livery, which it kept until an overhaul at Doncaster works (January 1991) saw it acquire the RF two-tone grey livery complete with Coal Sector logos and Toton cooling towers plaques. This livery lasted until April 1995, when it was given the Load Haul livery. 56109 ran its final years of service in this guise and was withdrawn in December 2003, then placed into storage at several sites (including Thornaby, Ferrybridge, and then Crewe) until it eventually fell under the cutter's torch at TJ Thomson, Stockton, during May 2011.
Class 31 31430 was built by Brush Traction at the Falcon Works, Loughborough, and entered service in April 1961 numbered D5695. Its problematic Mirrlees 12 cylinder power unit was changed for a 1470 bhp English Electric 12SVT power unit at Doncaster Works during November 1968, and the loco was reclassified as a Class 31/1. It was then renumbered to 31265 under TOPs in April 1974 but was then placed into storage at Swindon Works in October 1980 (following an accident?) and then withdrawn two months later. However, in September 1982, it was reinstated and later moved from Swindon Works to Doncaster Works, where it was fitted with ETH equipment during its conversion to Class 31/4. The loco was renumbered 31430 and returned to traffic in November 1983.
In October 1988, 31430 was named 'Sister Dora' (red nameplates) during an open day at Bescot Yard, then it was renumbered to 31530 after the ETH was isolated in December 1989, and during early 1990, it acquired the Civil Engineers' 'Dutch' livery complete with black 'Sister Dora' nameplates. Unfortunately, in November 1995, it was placed into storage at Bescot, and the nameplates were removed shortly afterwards.
After becoming an EWS loco during October 1996, it was restored to traffic (September 1997) but then returned to storage at Bescot in January 1999. June 2000 saw the loco move to Springs Branch CRDC, where it was officially withdrawn in October 2001. Fortunately, in December 2002, it then moved to Dereham, Mid-Norfolk Railway, for preservation. By now the loco was in a very faded state but was later sold (August 2013) to Martin Staniforth and moved to the Mangapps Railway Museum, where it was later restored as 31430 and renamed 'Sister Dora'. Now resplendent in its BR Blue livery, 31430 resides at the Spa Valley Railway.
(Photographer: Unknown)
35mm Slide | Date: 11 October 1987 | © TJW: ROTWSI