Class 31 - Original Railfreight - 31296 DCC Standard with a fleet number of

with a fleet number of RV 517

Originally stored from Toton in October 1995 it was returned to the fray courtesy of the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley in June 1999 renumbered as 31602 the second member of the new Class 31/6 sub class

the locomotive was soon put to work on a variety of the companies trains

Another smaller feature on this locomotive was the relocation of the injectors to above the running plate ahead of the cab

Class 31 - Original Railfreight - 31296 DCC Standard with a fleet number of31296 Amlwch Freighter Trn Nwyddau Amlwch Railfreight (orange cantrail stripe)The first week of September 1986 saw recently refurbished 31296 plucked from anonymity for what was described at the time as a double first. Despatched to Anglesey in North Wales, the Cricklewood allocated locomotive became the first Class 31 (and Type 1 or Type 2) to be named as well as the first to receive dual Welsh and English nameplates, carrying Amlwch Freighter and