Скачать или смотреть D5631 Class 31 Brush Traction locomotive at Sheringham Station North Norfolk Railway 2nd July 2022

Saturday 2nd July 2022

Drafted into service following a steam locomotive failure D5631 is seen here during at tight turn around at Sheringham on the first day of their vintage transport event.

British Rail Class 31

The British Rail Class 31 diesel locomotives, also known as the Brush Type 2 and originally as Class 30, were built by Brush Traction from 1957-62. They were numbered in two series, D5500-D5699 and D5800-D5862. The class was developed as a result of the British Transport Commission’s famous 1955 Modernization Plan. Brush of Loughborough adopted its A1A- A1A design for Ceylon Railways leading to the prototype D5500, the first of a batch of twenty, being delivered in October 1957. Further locomotives followed and the BTC were obviously impressed with the class and further orders were placed for what became the “production examples”, eventually totalling 243.