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Picture of the week: Diesel mechanical locomotive, 1956

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  1. National Railway Museum

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    To celebrate the launch of our new*railway photos section*with over*3500 Creative Commons-licensed images from our collection, our staff are choosing some*one of their favourite photos for this blog. Here’s*Peter Thorpe, Search Engine Visitor Assistant:
    This is a Brush Type 2 diesel, later to become known as the Class 31 and one of the many classes of diesel loco that were introduced as part of the British Railways Modernisation Plan of 1955. I like the image because it is the first Class 31, D5500, which now lives just below the Search Engine balcony in the Great Hall carrying its later number of 31018 – so everyone researching in Search Engine sees this engine.
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    Thompson1706 Part of the furniture

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    Doesn't look much like a class 31 to me !
     
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    Agreed - it looks more like a Class 05 shunter bult by Hunslet [D2551-2616 series] based on an industrial design
     
    Fred Kerr, Dec 6, 2012
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    Must be the coupe version.
     
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    Nope, looks like a Hunslet shunter to me, as can be found at Didcot. Which is a diesel mechanical as the thread title suggests. 31s are diesel electric.
     
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