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The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF)'s Kawasaki OH-6D (31279, JG-1279) scout helicopter, assigned to the 10th Aviation Squadron, 10th Division, Middle Army, conducts a flight display at Komaki Air Base (NKM / RJNA), Japan, March 3, 2018, during the Komaki Air Base Open Base 2018.
31452 (ex 31279 - IM - DCEA) & 455 (ex 31246 - RXXA - CD) - London Kings Cross - morning - 11/09/88 (stabled).
OOPS! Totally forgot about 6Z43 this morning & being half term (no wonder it's cloudy) the traffic wouldn't have been as bad as a normal Tuesday!
31279 on empties from Healey Mills to Woolley Colliery which will shortly reverse off to the left. 17 October 1983.
Remember the days when train spotting was for the younger generation? 31279 captures their attention with what I believe to have been a Bristol to Paddington excursion. 5/4/1975. Reading General.
31279 with empties from Healey Mills to Woolley Colliery before reversing off to the left on the Barnsley line. 17 October 1983.
31442 (ex 31279 - DCEA - IM) - 7R35 (1313 MSX Cambridge T.C - Ripple Lane West Yard [for Thames Haven refinery], which was formed of c24 discharged Charringtons TTAs) - Broxbourne - afternoon - 15/11/88.
31279 heading an up parcels train through Southalll station on 14 July 1975. Built as D5809, it entered service in July 1961. and put into traffic 27/07/1961. It was still in service in 2016 as 31452 in all over green livery and grey roof.
Photographer - Roy Burt
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45036, 40150, 31317, 31279 & 47040 (British Railways, alloacted to Toton, Carlisle Kingmoor, Immingham (both 31's) & Eastflield Depots respectively).
March TMD - afternoon - 17/09/83.
Best viewed Original size.
Newly overhauled, renumbered from 31279 and with ETH fitted, 31452 (IM) passes the site of the long closed Denaby Main Colliery in charge of 1M31 12:10 Hull to Manchester Piccadilly - 10/10/1984 (13:39).
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A trio of Brush Type 2s sit on the stabling point at Peterborough on a dreary April morning
31424, 31270, and 31279
By 1984, Peterborough was but a shadow of what it had been like only a few years earlier. The Deltics had gone, as had much of the parcels traffic, and freight was significantly less varied. Compared to today, however...............
31452 is seen stored at Great Yarmouth. This was originally numbered 31279 before being fitted with eth equipment and becoming 31452. It also carried the number 31552 for a while when the eth equipment was isolated.
Taken from a print in my collection, no further details known.
SECR H class, built as Ashford entering service numbered 279 Februaru 1906. SR A279, later 1279, after 1923. Renumbered 31279 July 1948 and withdrawn September 1959.
31452 (ex 31279 - IM - DCEA) - Barnetby - 1026 - 03/07/89 (Un-identified Westbound trip working [possibly ET61], which was formed of 1 TEA & 8 TTAs).
It was a busy that morning at Barnetby with 14 frieghts in less than hours, starting at 1007 with 37225 & 381 on a loaded iron ore train:-
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& 10 minutes later 37225 & 381 headed for Immingham with an empty iron ore train:-
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meeting 56088 heading the other way with a loaded merry-go-round coal train:-
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& 47054 with 6Y99 loaded fertiliser train at 1118:-
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DCR's Brush Type 2 31 452 waits at Kidderminster with the 1105 shuttle to
Bewdley, on the first day of Severn Valley Railway's 2016 Diesel Gala on
Thursday 19th May 2016.
DCR's Brush Type 2 31 452 runs round at
Bewdley in order to haul the 1156 shuttle back to Kidderminster, on the first day of Severn Valley Railway's 2016 Diesel Gala on Thursday 19th May 2016.
Best viewed 'Original size.
25292, 31253. 31279, 25277, 31239 & 55015 "Tulyar" stabled at York (YK) TMD.
© 2015 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photographed by John Turner.
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31279 on Worcester depot. Note the remains of the green livery beginning to show through the blue paint.
Vacuum braked Tinsley loco 31279 stands on the blocks at Manchester Piccadilly in the early hours of Saturday 11th September 1982.
The loco had brought in the parcels & newspaper vans for the 1E62 0210 to Cleethorpes and looking at this shot, it must have been shunt released as it worked the train as far as Sheffield, replaced by 31182 to the east coast.
The loco unbelievably, is still in service on the national network operating as 31452 to which it was renumbered (with ETH fitted at Doncaster) in 1984. After privatisation it became part of the Fragonset fleet. It is currently owned by Devon & Cornwall Railways.
31452 passes Garston Junction en route to Liverpool for a Sheffield service on 10th May 1988.
The loco was part of a fleet often located on the holding sidings at Garston, to work the Sheffield services and certainly entailed a bit more work for the signalman as every move was a double shunt off the HS to get round to Liverpool.
The loco was 31279 up until October 1984 when it was converted to the ETH version that still roams the rails today as part of the Devon & Cornwall fleet.
A Metro, Ford Orion and Austin Allegro are seen in the car park of the "White House", BRs freight centre at Garston. A far cry from the Porsches, BMWs and Mercedes that litter today's railway building car parks!
The 2-3 reference is the bell code for a light engine.
Royston Junction in 1975 as 31279 heads south with a freight. After the closure of the Midland Main Line as a through route to Sheffield, the line was singled and now terminates at Monk Bretton glass works. GBRf 66788 works the weekly sand train from Middleton Towers.
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47 518 waits at Peterborough for the mail tCross o be loaded into the guards compartment on 1D06, the 18:17 Kings - Cleethorpes, I believe, at that time, the only remaining through service from London to the Lincolnshire coastal town.
31 279 is in the adjacent platform
The last Class 31 currently still operating on Network Rail is 31452 stabled here in the north dock sidings at Derby, 16th May 2017.
Locomotive History
31452 was built by Brush at the Falcon works, Loughborough as D5809 and entered traffic in July 1961, allocated to Darnall MPD. During July 1967 D5809 was released from Doncaster Works following classified repair during which its unreliable Mirrlees JVS12T 1250bhp engine was replaced by a 1470bhp English Electric 12SVT engine. The first ten years would be generally spent in the Sheffield area initially at Darnall, followed by Wath and then Tinsley. It was one of a number of Class 31’s transferred in the early 1970’s to Western Region depots to allow the withdrawal of Class 35 Hymek diesel hydraulics and arrived at Bristol Bath Road in October 1971. Over the next four years it would regularly transfer between Bristol and Old Oak Common until returning to the Eastern Region at March in October 1975. It became 31279 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme. It would remain at March for nine years until released from Doncaster Works following classified repair in October 1984 (during which it was fitted with electric train heating and renumbered 31452) and transferred to Immingham. In April 1990 the electric train heating was isolated and it was renumbered 31552. It remained at Immingham for almost ten years until transferred to Toton in March 1994. On privatisation it became part of the EWS fleet and spent almost two years from September 1996 in store. It survived the influx of the Class 66 by becoming part of the Fragonset fleet and had its electric train heating reactivated becoming 31452 once more and is currently (May 2017) part of the Devon and Cornwall Railways fleet.
20179 and 31170 are leaving the Sheffield to Doncaster line to run over the avoider line with 8G32 Brookhouse to Scunthorpe, passing 31279 with a trip unloading signalbox coal at Hexthorpe Junction 17th December 1978. The picture is taken from the signalbox.
Photo details
Colour Slide scan
Agfa 64ASA Colour Slide Film
Camera Canon AE1
Lens Canon 50mm
The remains of Nettleham Hall, located between Nettleham and Riseholme in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
The hall was destroyed in a fire back in 1937, all that still remains is the shell of the Georgian house. While the hall is hidden away on private land the Grade I Listed Gates and Piers lay at the side of Hall Lane.
The gates came from the demolished church of St. Peter at Arches Lincoln. They are built from ashlar and wrought iron in 1720 by Francis or William Smith and the piers and flanking wall and screen were built in 1890.
G288 OGE (31279) City Bus. Ex. Strathclyde (AH 40) New September 1989. Queen Street, turning into Ingram Street, Glasgow
No date (after August 1973 - thanks to Mister C) for this one taken at Reading but as (D)5809 move to the Western Region in October 1971 we must be later than that. Also it was initially at Bath Road and moved to Old Oak in January 1972 so I suspect we are post that sometime in 1972. The 1A48 which it is working has a Buffet Car was the 16.15 from Worcester (thanks again to Mister C).
The loco was new from Brush to Sheffield Darnall in July 1961 and became 31279 initially under tops. When fitted with eth it became 31452. It is now owned by Eastern Rail Services and I think currently at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway.
Image from a negative in my collection taken by an unknown photographer.
Standing at Platform 8 at York station is Class 40 40023 waiting it,s turn to head up the Coast to Scarbrough with a service from Manchester Victoria, 40016 40023 40027 40047 40049 40050 40051 40059 40062 40086 40157 40177..55004 55007 55008 55012 55017 55020 37015 37028 37033 37112 37123 31123 31279 were also photographed on a great Summer Saturday day out. 45023 New Street ; York 46055 York ; Birmingham 26/06/1976.
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Its getting late in the day and the daylight is going fast for 31452 stabled at Derby, 25th May 2016.
Locomotive History
31452 was built by Brush at the Falcon works, Loughborough as D5809 and entered traffic in July 1961, allocated to Darnall MPD. During July 1967 D5809 was released from Doncaster Works following classified repair during which its unreliable Mirrlees JVS12T 1250bhp engine was replaced by a 1470bhp English Electric 12SVT engine. The first ten years would be generally spent in the Sheffield area initially at Darnall, followed by Wath and then Tinsley. It was one of a number of Class 31’s transferred in the early 1970’s to Western Region depots to allow the withdrawal of Class 35 Hymek diesel hydraulics and arrived at Bristol Bath Road in October 1971. Over the next four years it would regularly transfer between Bristol and Old Oak Common until returning to the Eastern Region at March in October 1975. It became 31279 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme. It would remain at March for nine years until released from Doncaster Works following classified repair in October 1984 (during which it was fitted with electric train heating and renumbered 31452) and transferred to Immingham. In April 1990 the electric train heating was isolated and it was renumbered 31552. It remained at Immingham for almost ten years until transferred to Toton in March 1994. On privatisation it became part of the EWS fleet and spent almost two years from September 1996 in store. It survived the influx of the Class 66 by becoming part of the Fragonset fleet and had its electric train heating reactivated becoming 31452 once more and is currently (May 2016) part of the Devon and Cornwall Railways fleet.
DCR's Brush Type 2 31 452 passes Bewdley North Signal Box as it runs round shortly after arriving with the 1105 shuttle from Kidderminster, on day one of Severn Valley Railway's 2016 Diesel Gala on Thursday 19th May 2016.
British Railways Brush Type 2 A1A-A1A class 31/4 diesel-electric locomotive number 31452 of Immingham Traction Maintenance Depot passes beneath Swain Street overbridge departing from platform 1 at Leicester railway station onto the Down Main with the 13:53 Leicester to Norwich (1E76). 14:09, Sunday 15th June 1986
Note, 31452 was built by Brush Traction (works number 310) at the Falcon Works in Loughborough in July 1961 for British Railways as number D5809, being renumbered 31279 in February 1974. It was fitted with electric train heating equipment, being renumbered 31452 on 10th October 1984. Its electric train heating equipment was isolated, being renumbered 31552 on 8th May 1990. It was transferred to Mainline Freight Limited on 1st April 1995 as part of the privatisation of British Railways. Mainline Freight Limited was purchased by North and South Railways Limited on 24th February 1996. 31552 was placed in store on 1st October 1996, and Mainline Freight Limited’s assets were transferred to the English Welsh & Scottish Railway Limited on 14th October 1996. 31552 was sold to Fragonset Railways Limited in April 1998 and the electric train heating equipment was restored to working order, being renumbered 31452 on 27th August 1998. It was named MINOTAUR at the Birmingham Railway Museum on 13th July 1999. Fragonset Railways Limited became part of F M Rail Limited in January 2005. F M Rail Limited went into administration on 11th December 2006 and was soon closed down with 31452 being acquired by Cotswold Rail Engineering Limited. It passed to Mainline Rail Limited in 2007. Mainline Rail Limited ceased to trade in 2008 and its assets, including 31452, passed to British American Railway Services Limited
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31452 in the sidings at Great Yarmouth.
The British Rail class 31 is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed by Brush Traction. A total of 263 Class 31's were built at Brush's Works, Loughborough between 1957 and 1962.
They were fitted initially with the Mirlees JVS12T 1,250 engine producing between 1,250 and 1365 hp. These quickly developed major problems and all were replaced by English Electric 12SVT engines as were used in class 37's though derated to 1470 hp. This wholesale replacement of the power units of the whole class after only a few years at great cost raised a few eyebrows.
31452 was built as D5809 as part of the 31/1 sub class with steam heating equipment fitted. It entered service in BR Green livery. In July 1961 it was allocated new to Sheffield Darnall shed. It rapidly moved round a number of Yorkshire sheds eventually settling at Tinsley before in 1971 being allocated to the Western region. It spent 3 years there allocated at either Old Oak Common or Bristol Bath Road. In 1974 it was then allocated back to the Eastern region at March. Later on it returned to the Western region.
Class 31's performed secondary and relief passenger services, parcels and freight services. In times of diesel multiple unit
shortages they were often utilised as loco replacements.
At the end of 1973 D5809 it was renumbered under the BR TOPS scheme to 31279. It eventually was also repainted into the standard BR Monastral blue livery.
In 1984 after a major refurbishment 31279 was fitted with electric train heating and had its steam heat boiler removed. It was then renumbered again to its current number 31452.
After sectorisation and then privatisation of BR, 31452 was owned by various operators including EWS, Fargonset, Mainline, FM Rail, and then Devon & Cornwall Railways (DCR). In 1999 whilst with Fragonset it was named 'Minotaur', the plates being removed at a later date. In this period it carried various liveries reflecting the company that owned it at the time. Its last mainline livery being the DCR green livery.
31452 was still running on the main network in 2017 some 56 years after it being built. Latterly it was used hauling light engines, empty stock or track maintenance vehicles around the network for DCR. By that time it was the last class 31 running on the mainline.
It arrived at Dartmoor Railway in November 2017 and was used for event trains and occasional use on heritage services.
31452 was then owner by RMS Locotec who in February 2020 sold it to Eastern Rail Services who operate it at their Great Yarmouth base where it will be used to provide ETS to the stabled stock as well as for shunting in the sidings.
Class: 31
Type: Brush Type 2
First number carried: D5809
Last number carried: 31452
Other numbers carried: 31279
Length: 56 ft. 9 in. (17.3 m)
Width: 8 ft. 9 in. (2.67 m)
Height: 12 ft. 7 in. (3.84 m)
Gauge: 4 ft. 8 1⁄2 in. (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Weight: 107 ton
Fuel capacity: 650 gal. (3,000 litres)
Power type: Diesel-electric
Engine: English Electric 12SVT
Engine output: 1,470 hp (1,096 kW)
Max speed: 90 mph (145 km/h)
Builder: Brush Works, Loughborough
Built: 1961
A Western at rest on Old Oak Common with 47456 and 31279 for company.
Western Guardsman is the first of the Westerns to be constructed without headboard clips. A sign of the times signalling the discontinuing of those ornate indicators of crack expresses on Western Region. Here 1025 has recently worked an excursion it seems, as indicated by the Z in the headcode panel. WR often favoured 14 as the reporting number for such services so 43 was a bit of a variation on that theme.
If the excursion had a headboard, it certainly wasn't fitted to the loco. It could have been a transfer though. 1023 travelled from Plymouth to Paddington with THE END stuck on the cab front. It was not supposed to happen that it was exposed to the elements for the journey as the headboard was supposed to be put back on for the run to Paddington. However, it wasn't so the sticker got some 225 miles of a battering!
The final tour was supposed to take the Westbury cut off but someone must have had a word and the tour passed through the station. The unofficial headboard certainly had an effect on the gathered throng at Westbury. A groaning sound was heard as we passed through non stop.
Non stop through Westbury was a rarity to say the least.
Bescot on 15th December 1983. On the left a Class 304 EMU, still running as a four-car formation, pauses with a Walsall - Birmingham New Street working while AC Electric No. 81004 comes the other way with a down parcels train. On the right, Brush Type 2 No. 31279 waits to depart from the down yard with a northbound train of 16T mineral wagons.
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Class 40 40047 has just uncoupled from a Newcastle to Scarbrough service I will photograph it as it runs down the centre road then walk to the other end of the station and photograph as it leaves for Scarbrough, A Summer Saturday at York was always a pleasure plenty to photograph on this day I captured on film : 40016 40023 40047 40051 40059 40062 40086 40108 40173 37015 37028 37033 37112 37123 55004 55007 55008 55012 55017 55020 31123 31279 47282 47426 474544 47549, a great day out. O Happy days KC. 26/06/1976. 45023 Birmingham to York 46055 York to New Street
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The 'Piece-de-Resistance' as 'they' say again, though with a disappointingly short consist of 10, 2-axle, PNA box wagons. The last workings of this type have seen longish rakes of PHA(REDA), side-tipping self discharge wagons being brought up for scrap from Peterborough West Yard but today its a light load of 10 from the sidings at Chaddesden, not far from Derby Station and being taken for reversal at Derby. Its a bit hard to see why such a short consist is being taken as far as Doncaster West Yard when this number of wagons could be comfortably accommodated in the loop at Thrybergh/Kilnhurst and the loco run round them there without recourse to the extra distance to Doncaster. The class 31, 31452, ex-D5809, has been seen around here recently, taking a unit up to the Wear Valley and bringing 3 back of the same type to attend a Diesel Gala, away south on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex. Some information about the class 31-
Number: 31452
Class: 31/4
Depot: ZM - Marcroft Engineering Stoke
Pool: HTLX - Hanson Traction Locos
Livery: GB - Green - B.R. Style
Builder: Brush Traction, Loughborough
Built: 27/07/1961
Works Number: 310
31452 Named: 14/07/1999, 'Minotaur'
31452 Renumbered, from 31279 on 10/10/1984
31279 Renumbered, from D5809 on 31/12/1973
The loco is in very good condition and is the ex-'Minotaur', D5809 unit with the 10 PNA wagons behind here seen passing along the down platform 1 line at Swinton Interchange station. Looking on, on the right, man and dog, the former grinning, though the latter may be too, as the 31 passes with its easy cargo. This is the, now weekly, scrap train move, this one, 6Z31, Chaddesden Sidings to Masbrough Booths Scrapyard working and reversal will take place during 20 minutes at Doncaster. The working is running around 60 minutes late due to a late start from Derby and this was maintained throughout the day although the return light engine working to Derby from Booths, picked up and extra 58 mins delay on the approach to Derby.
31452 is mainline registered and is now operated by Eastern Rail Services, having previously been part of both the Devon and Cornwall Railways fleet and Fragonset.
It is seen at the Diesel Gala and Beer Festival held at the railway from the 30th August until the 1st September 2024.
31452 was built in July 1961 and was previously (D)5809, 31279 and 31552.
Visible in the background are (D)8110 / 20110 to the left and 08773 to the right.