Class 31, 31233
Brush Type 2 Class 31 diesel locomotive 31233 with 31465 as rear gunner working the 1Q04 09:30 Norwich- East Ham Electric Multiple Unit Depot (EMUD) via Southend Victoria Network Rail infrastructure parameter monitoring test train southbound at Hatfield Peverel Railway Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).
This particular routine infrastructure parameter monitoring test train is ultrasonic rail flaw surveying using a UTU (Ultrasonic Test Unit) vehicle.
The 54 year old 31233 was built as British Railways Type 2 D5660 at Brush Traction Ltd. in Loughborough and entered service in October 1960 while Hatfield Peverel Station and the then Eastern Counties Railway opened in 1843.
Absolutely adore Class 31's. Cut my young trainspotting teeth on these just down the road at Chelmsford station in the late 1970s.
My Class 31 album flic.kr/s/aHsjYVNvYi
Thank you to my regular photostream contributor David for taking time out to take this photograph and is posted here with kind permission.
Class 31, 31233
Brush Type 2 Class 31 diesel locomotive 31233 with 31465 as rear gunner working the 1Q04 09:30 Norwich- East Ham Electric Multiple Unit Depot (EMUD) via Southend Victoria Network Rail infrastructure parameter monitoring test train southbound at Hatfield Peverel Railway Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).
This particular routine infrastructure parameter monitoring test train is ultrasonic rail flaw surveying using a UTU (Ultrasonic Test Unit) vehicle.
The 54 year old 31233 was built as British Railways Type 2 D5660 at Brush Traction Ltd. in Loughborough and entered service in October 1960 while Hatfield Peverel Station and the then Eastern Counties Railway opened in 1843.
Absolutely adore Class 31's. Cut my young trainspotting teeth on these just down the road at Chelmsford station in the late 1970s.
My Class 31 album flic.kr/s/aHsjYVNvYi
Thank you to my regular photostream contributor David for taking time out to take this photograph and is posted here with kind permission.