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[[File:31466 leaving for Gloucester from the Dean Forest Railway.JPG|thumb|300px|right|31466 (Wikimedia Commons)]]
'''31466''' is a BR Class 31 locomotive. It arrived on the SVR in July 2021 on hire as cover for [[BR Class 33 33108]]<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4422&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 SVR On-line Forum]</ref>.
==Service and preservation==
The BR Class 31 diesel locomotive was also known as the Brush Type 2 and originally as the Class 30. A total of 263 were built by Brush Traction between 1957 and 1962.<ref name=Wikipedia>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_31 BR Class 31 on Wikipedia]</ref> This locomotive was originally built as a Class 30 and entered service in June 1959 at Norwich Thorpe MPD numbered '''D5533'''. In April 1968 it was reclassified from Class 30 to Class 31 sub-type 31/1 (the standard locomotive fitted with steam heating and Blue Star electro-pneumatic control).<ref name=BRDatabase>[https://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=D&id=5533&loco=5533 BRDatabase - 31466]</ref>
The introduction of [[TOPS codes|TOPS]] saw the locomotive renumbered as '''31115''' in January 1973. In March 1985 it was fitted with ETH, becoming sub-type 31/4 and receiving its final number of '''31466'''.<ref name=BRDatabase/>
By May 1988 the locomotive had served in BR's Eastern Region for all but a year. It was then transferred to Crewe Diesel, where it remained for the rest if its service life.<ref name=BRDatabase/> Prior to the introduction of the Class 66, English Welsh & Scottish (EWS) took control of the Class 31s from the Mainline Freight and Trainload Freight companies. 31466 was repainted into EWS livery for the Toton TMD open day in May 1998; Wikipedia suggests it was then the only one of the class to be in traffic running in the EWS colours until being withdrawn from service and preserved in February 2001.<ref name=Wikipedia/>
31466 is normally resident on the Dean Forest Railway<ref>[https://deanforestrailway.co.uk/diesel-locomotives/ Dean Forest Railway, Diesel Locomotives page]</ref>.
==See also==
==Links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_31 BR Class 31 on WiklipediaWikipedia]*[https://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=D&id=5533&loco=5533 31466 on BRDatabase]
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