Class 31 - BR Blue - 31447

Class 31 - BR Blue - 3144731447 BR blueRecognising the calls for a mid 1980s plain blue Class 31 4 is 31447, converted from 31295 in July 1984. This had been an early exile to the Western Region in 1973 while still carrying its original (D)5828 number and BR green livery. However, unlike most of its colleagues it found itself back in East Anglia after just a couple of years before it was transferred to Toton in October 1984, its last allocation before receiving the call to

apart from the first-class upper panels

Returned to the UK in the early 2014

was delivered to their Tottenham Gasworks site on 2 October 1947

it never carried the Cooling Towers depot plaque

On larger model railways

The programme of rolling stock production undertaken by Oliver Bulleid during his time as Chief Mechanical Engineer at Corás Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) in the 1950s contained a number of now-iconic vehicles

just in time to assist on the newly acquired Network Rail infrastructure monitoring contract

It was unveiled on 1st March 2009 at the National Railway Museum in York by actor Chris Chittell

also described as bronze gold

the locomotive was assigned to Toton Depot

an incongruous sight among the more modern wagons being used

each cage loaded full with silver Beer Kegs