Class 31 - Railfreight Distribution - 31160By the launch of the iconic Roundel designed Railfreight scheme in October 1987 around 30 Class 31s were allocated to the FGWC pool at Tinsley for Speedlink wagonload services. However with the fleet only recently refurbished at Doncaster Works and Railfreight Distribution looking to standardise on Class 37 and 47 motive power there was no hurry to repaint them in its new image. However, following serious fire damage to 31160 the South Yorkshire depot

at Stratford in 1904 and incorporated many of the improvements made to the R24 Class in the 1902 Improvement Programme

7800 – ‘Torquay Manor '

In June 2010

Welded roof with plated boiler exhaust and no cab roof vent

the famed Italian writer of the Divine Comedy

Happily No

It returned to traffic and proved a valuable member of the working fleet until its last boiler ticket expired in 1995

they also supplied a number of other locations

Later renumbered 31001 it was among the first ‘Toffee Apples’ – so named because of the shape of the power handle - to be withdrawn

they soon went to work on a variety of trains for the Coal

Once the five-year deal had run its course

Each wagon is approx 165mm long