Class 31 Brush/English Electric

A1A-A1A diesel locomotives

Class 31 diesel-electric locomotives

 built for British Railways by English Electric/Brush Traction at Loughborough between 1958 and 1962.

Class 31 locomotives have a maximum tractive effort of 160 kN (45000 lbf).

Class 31 locomotives power at rail of 872 kW

(1170 hp) with design and maximum speed of 90 mph.

Contemporary and Heritage-Preserved, Diesel, Diesel-Electric and Electric Locomotives

My Archive Steam Photos from the 1960s

Class 31 Diesel locomotives featured: D5580, D5600, D5613/31190, D5830, 31018, 31108, 31119, 31128, 31190, 31206, 31271 "Stratford 1840-2001", 31452, 31466, 31601

Class 31 31271 (31 271) at Wansford station on the Nene Valley Railway (NVR Mixed Traffic Gala, Sept. 2017)
 

Class 31 31271 paired with 66779 leaving Wansford station with an Nene Valley Railway train for Peterborough (NVR Mixed Traffic Gala, Sept. 2017)
 

The same train returning to Wansford later in the afternoon.

Portrait of Class 31 31271 named "Stratford 1840-2001"

Class 31271 is named "Stratford 1840 - 2001"

 

Class 31 D5830 (with D8098), waiting at Loughborough to do a double heading duty (GCR Diesel Gala, Sept. 2017)

Class 31 diesel D5830 leading D8098 in a double header hauled train leaving Loughborough for Leicester (GCR Diesel Gala, Sept. 2017)

Class 31 31108 in British Rail blue & yellow livery, at Midland Railway Centre, Swanwick Junction, Class 31 108 was built as D5526 (D 5526) in 1959 by Brush Electrical Engineering, Loughborough.

also D5526

Ex EWS Class 31 diesel locomotive 31466 at Grosmont station at the NYMR 2014 Heritage Diesel Gala

Ex EWS Class 31 diesel locomotive 31466 entering Grosmont station  at the NYMR 2014 Heritage Diesel Gala

Class 31 diesel locomotive D5613 or Class 31/1 loco 31190 at York Station (June 2014), This Class 31 locomotive is operated by DCR, Devon & Cornwall Railway in British Railways green livery.

Ex EWS Class 31 diesel-electric locomotive 31466 leaving Goathland with a train for Pickering at the NYMR 2014 Heritage Diesel Gala

Diesel-electric locomotive Class 31 31128 CHARYBDIS at Grosmont sheds (31 128, D5546, D 5546). Built in 1959 by Brush electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough, Leicestershire.

NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Class 31 31128 at Grosmont with a train from Pickering.

NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Class 31 Type A1A-A1A 31 128 (31128) 'CHARYBDIS' leaving Goathland with a passenger train for Levisham and Pickering. 31 128 is Class 31 built in 1959 by Brush Traction with a power classification of 1470 hp and this loco carries British Rail Blue from the 70s and 80s

NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Type Class 31 31128 passing over Grosmont level crossing with a train from Goathland, Levisham and Pickering.

Class 31 A1A-A1A diesel electric locomotive 31018 built in 1957 by Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough. (31 018, built as prototype D5500, D 5500), photographed in York NRM

Class 31 diesel-electric locomotive 31018 at York NRM, built by Brush traction in 1957, with its A1A wheel arrangement

Diesels on the Great Central Railway: Orange-brown ('golden ochre') liveried A1A-A1A Brush powered Class 31 D5830 (other possible numbers D 5830, 31297 31 297, 31463 31 463, 31563, 31 563) built at Brush electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough, Leicestershire in 1962).

NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Class 31 31128 passing an increasingly wet Moorgates with a train bound for Pickering.

NYMR Diesel Gala 2011: Class 31 31128 passing through the New Bridge level crossing just north of Pickering.

 A pair of Class 31 diesel locomotives near Peterborough, namely Class 31 31190 (in plain BR green livery) and I think Class 31 31452 (plain BR green with DCR logo too) (snapshots from a East Coast mainline train!).

Class 31 diesel D5580 in British Rail blue livery on the Wensleydale Railway (D 5580 31162 built in 1960 by Brush E.E.C. at Loughborough)

Class 31 D5600 built by Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough in 1960. D 5600 was later numbered 31179 and 31435 and named "Newton Heath TMD". D5600 is pictured here at Bolton Abbey Station on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey railway

Class 31 31119 was built as D5537 by Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough in 1959. Class 31 31119 (D 5537) is pictured here at Bolton Abbey Station on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey railway

Green liveried Class 31 diesel 31452 parked by Derby station (18/01/17), this Class 31 locomotive was built as D5809 by Brush Traction, Loughborough in 1961, it was then numbered 31279 and finally 31452.

Class 31 31128 CHARYBDIS being moved from Pickering NYMR to ? in 2017.

Class 31 diesel locomotive 31206, Wirksworth station yard, Ecclesbourne Valley Railway (April 2018).

Class 31 31206 was built by Brush Traction, Loughborough in 1960 as D5630

31601 ex DC Rail, names "Devon Diesel Society", Wirksworth station yard, Ecclesbourne Valley Railway (April 2018). Class 31 31601 was built by Brush Traction, Loughborough in 1960 as D5609. Class 31 31601 has carried several names previously - "Bletchley Park 'Station X'", "The Mayor of Casterbridge", "Gauge '0' Guild 1956-2006"

My Archive Steam Photos from the 1960s

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