19810110_ZD_GerardFletcher
31 326 March South
Looking perfectly healthy, this was 31326 on 31st May 1981 - the day it was withdrawn from operating stock !, It is seen at March South Jn heading west on the 13.40 (Sunday) Norwich to Birmingham New Street. It had been a March based engine since 1968 having previously been at Norwich. As D5861 it was the penultimate 31 to enter traffic in October 1962., Far from being the end though it survived a sojourn at Swindon Works - the deathbed of so many locos at this time - to eventually become 31970 at Derby RTC and according to Harris was not dismantled until March 1997.
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