Bright Yellow 31105 with test train stock rest's in Ipswich Carridge Sidings on 29th April 2008.

31148 waits a Bury St.Edmunds on 31/5/77 with 3L03, 1740 Colchester to Bradford Exchange Parcels.

31112 rushes through Manningtree on 1/6/77 with 6R56, 1207 Norwich to Ripple Lane empty fuel oil tanks from Charringtons.

31019 stands outside the goods shed at Bury St.Edmunds while the train, 1L06, 0420 News from Ipswich is being unloaded.

31314's boiler produces a good cloud of steam as it it heats 1K54, 2355 Liverpool Street to Ipswich seen at Liverpool Street on 18/4/77.

31133 seen in the bright morning sun at Lowestoft on 29/4/77 waiting with 1K19, the 0722 to Liverpool Street. Driver Basil brings the tea.

31012 slowly rots away at Stratford Depot on 10/9/77.

31002 stands at Liverpool Street after bring in the coaches to form the 2036 to Kings Lynn on 22/10/77.

31017 waits at Ipswich on 7/2/78 before working 4K01, 2025 parcels to Liverpool Street.

31135 stands in the bay platform at Peterborough on 12/2/78 before shunting over to the main platforms. The train is 1P11, 2320 to Ipswich and as being a Sunday Night does not convey TPO Vans.

31305 endures a blizzard at Cambridge on 16/3/78.

31013 catches the sun while parked in Colchester Depot on 30/3/78.

31017 waits at Ipswich on 24/5/78 while working 1N14, 0430 Liverpool Street to Norwich service.

31019 runs down Belstead Bank on 26/5/78 with 1G56, 1524 Liverpool Street to Lowestoft relief.

31308 + 31244 leave March on 27/5/78 with 1M66, 1430 Yarnouth to Walsall service.

31019 waits to leave Liverpool Street on 4/6/78 with a set of empties for Thornton Field Carridge Sidings.

31224 waits for a path at Haughley Junction on 13/6/78 with 8K07, the afternoon Diss to Ipswich goods with it's usual load of muckspreaders. !

More bright Orange muckspreaders are the load on the afternoon Diss to Ipswich goods, seen in Diss Yard with 31275 providing the power on 16/6/78.

Weed Killing 1970's style. 31164 runs through Ipswich on 21/6/78 with a motley collection of vehicles in tow.

31193 is seen after arrival at Bury St.Edmunds on 24/6/78 with 1L06, the 0420 News from Ipswich.

31005 stands in the former Maldon platform at Witham on 27/6/78 with 3F23, 1915 Colchester to Liverpool Street parcels.

31108 waits at Bury St.Edmunds early on 22/7/78 with 3C19, 0500 Peterborough Parcels Terminal to Liverpool Street. Driver Basil looks for the right away tip from the guard.

31005 rests at Ipswich on 26/6/78.

31015 on 3F23, 1915 Colchester to Liverpool Street parcels at seen in New Hall Loop, just North of Chelmsford on 26/7/78.

31301 + 31242 are seen at Ipswich on 9/9/78 prior to leaving with 1Z70, the 1705 return footex to Birmingham New Street. The 37 that can just be seen is on the 1715 to Cambridge, usually hauled on match days.

Guess where this is ?? No. !! 31286 stands inside Peterborough Parcels Depot on 14/2/79 with 3C19, the 0500 to Liverpool Street.

Not a train you can normally photograph in daylight is 1B36, 0101 Ipswich to Peterborough TPO. Due to severe weather 31269 is seen on that train near Peterborough East on 15/2/79. Already it had stood there for four hours.

31005 shunts London Road Ballast Depot at Ipswich on 21/3/79.

31017 stops at Manningtree on 12/4/79 while working 1G73, 1715 relief from Ipswich to Liverpool Street.

31114 working 6K32, 1145 Temple Mills to Ipswich waits in Ingatestone Loop for 37022 to pass on 1N26, the 1230 Liverpool Street to Norwich service.

ADB968013 was converted from 31013 for use as a carridge heating unit. Seen at Stratford Depot on 30/9/79.

31114 has taken a turn for the worse at New Hall Loop, Chelmsford on 5/10/79. The 31 stayed like this for a few weeks until the cranes could come and return her to the rails.

31110 stands in Temple Mills Yard on 21/12/79 with a lengthy load on 7N40, the 1145 to Norwich Wensum Yard.

31261 passes Rivenhall, near Witham on 10/4/80 with 4F09, 1106 Colchester to Liverpool Street parcels.

Near New Hall sees 31229 on express duties on 10/4/80, working 1F20, the 0940 Liverpool Street to Parkeston Quay boat train.

31412 is seen in the dip at Elmswell on 28/10/82 working 1C02, 0818 Peterborough to Parkeston Quay service.

31166 + 31228 are seen at Stapleford & Sandiacre on 11/5/78 with a Toton bound train of coal.

A while later 31228 on it's own heads North with a loaded ballast train.

31019 is in charge of 1N14, 0430 Liverpool Street to Norwich service, seen at Ipswich on 23/5/78.

31264 and 31239 stand outside the shed at March on 27/5/78.

31226 and 31272 share the line up with 25270 at March on 27/5/78.

31261 leaves Ipswich on 27/5/78 working 1C18, 1645 Peterborough to Parkeston Quay 'Mini Boat' train.

31019 again, this time at Liverpool Street on 4/6/78.

31288 + 31177 call at March on 26/6/82 with 1E64, the 1015 from Birmingham New Street to Yarmouth.

31174 with 31158 at the rear are seen with the last train to visit Torrington on 6/11/82 run as 1Z31, 1008 Bristol Temple Meads to Torrington.

31417 has the attention of the fire brigade at Ipswich on 2/7/83 while working 1B46, the 1807 Parkeston Quay to Peterborough.

31223 stands at Saxmundham Junction on the Sizewell Branch on 14/7/83 with 7G85, the 1530 Sizewell CEGB to Temple Mills.

31444 stands at Lancaster on 12/7/84 after arriving with 2M77, the 1105 from Hull.

31175 is allocated to the wiring train on 24/4/85 and is seen at Bradfield on the Harwich Branch.

31412 passses Haughley Junction with the wiring train heading back to Ipswich Wherstead Road Electrification Depot.

31149 + 31301 enter Sleaford on 6/7/91 with the Leeds to Skegness service.

31180 + 31149 stand at Ipswich Holding Sidings on 9/1/93.

31263 and 31290 stand on Stratford Depot on 16/2/93 with 56036 for company.

31320, 31243 and 31299 at Stratford Depot on 16/2/93.

31240 can be seen between 31299 and 31243 at Stratford Depot on 16/2/93.

31165 'Stratford Major Depot' is seen near Claydon with a Pathfinder Rail Tour.

31439 'North Yorkshire Moors Railway' is seen at Grosmont on 19/9/92 when it worked a 0805 charter from Derby to Pickering.

31311 hauls a Class 312 EMU into Stratfford on 16/2/86 which it will haul as far as Ilford, the train being 2F44, 1500 from Liverpool Street to Clacton service/

31252 marshalls ex NS 1502 and 1505 together at Harwich Town on 15/7/86 after they had both returned home from working in Holland for many years.

31270 enters Bristol Temple Meads on 8/8/86 with the 1603 local from Weston-super-Mare, another DMU replacement service.