Built by BRUSH Ltd, Loughborough in 1962. Works No. BT366
Wheel Arrangement: A1A-A1A (Two bogies with three axles only the outer axles being driven)
Weight: 107-113 Tons
Max Speed: 90 MPH
Fuel Tank Capacity: 500 Gallons
Length: 56 ft 9 ins
Engine size: 180 Litres
Blue Star multiple fitted
Dual Braked
One of 263 built
Originally Built with a Mirrless JVS12T (12 Cylinder Vee engine)
Turbo Charged
1250 HP
Max Tractive Effort 42,800 lbs
TOPS Classification Class 30
Re-engined between 1965 & 1969 with a English Electric 12SVT (12 Cylinder Vee engine)
Turbo Charged
1470 HP
Max Tractive Effort 35,900 lbs
TOPS Classification Class 31
Fitted with a Spanner Swirlyflow Boiler, although removed when converted to ETH (Electric Train Heating)
Pre Tops no. D5830
Tops number 31297 31463 31563
Re-numbering date 05/74 11/02/85 09/10/90
Entered Service 11.01.62 BR Green with small yellow warning panels
Withdrawn 25/06/96
Last Passenger 02 09 94 Peterborough – Sandy relief service due to gas leak at Huntingdon
Locomotive History
D5830 or Brush Type 2 was built by Brush at its Falcon Works, Loughborough. Its works no. was BS366/1962, and its first British Rail no. was D5830. D5830 was one of the first to be delivered new with small yellow warning panels to offset the green livery with two white stripes.
It entered traffic on 11th January 1962 and was allocated officially to Darnall, (Sheffield).
The locomotive was originally fitted with a Mirrlees JVS12T engine but due to cracking BR decided to replace all the engines with the English Electric 12SVT 1470hp engine which had already proven itself in the Class 37. Both engines were 12 cylinder vee form engines.
D5830 received its new English Electric engine and the new corporate blue livery with full yellow warning ends by 20 Oct 1967. It was renumbered under TOPS as no. 31 297 in May 1974.
In the early 1970’s a newer type of coaching stock was introduced requiring locomotives fitted with electric train heating generators (ETH) to heat the coaches and provide air conditioning rather than heating by a Spanner Mark I steam heat boiler. D5830 was one of the 68 Class 31’s that was selected for conversion to ETH. This is when the boiler was removed and replaced with a concrete block to compensate for the weight of the removed boiler. It received the no. 31 463 to indicate it was an ETH version. On 11th Feb 1985 allocated to Immingham for Trans-Pennine services
On 9th October 1990 D5830 was allocated to the freight sector and with no longer any use for the ETH it was isolated and renumbered to 31 563. In January 1992 the locomotive was repainted at Immingham Depot into Civil Engineers “Dutch” grey and yellow livery.
Withdrawn in June 1996, with weak springs. It was stored at Toton. It was bought from the newly formed EWS by the Type One Locomotive Company, initially to provide spares for 31 418, arriving at the GCR on 30th January 1998. After detailed inspection it was deemed to be in better condition and 31 418 was later sold, with D5830 taking its place as an operational Class 31 on the GCR, entering service on 23rd April 1999.
The locomotive was painted in to an early experimental livery of Golden Ochre, uniquely carried by sister D5579, and to create the image it carried this number for a short while before reverting to D5830. It was initially though that it would only carry this livery for a year but it has not only retained this livery but has it repainted into the same livery. This is partly because it has constantly received good publicity for the owners and the Great Central Railway.
D5830 made its first trip away from the GCR in 2014 when it visited the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, for their Diesel Gala.
In April 2019 T1LC engineers reinstated the ETH equipment making D5830 a fully-fledged 31/4 again. The ETH system was soon put into use at the Great Central Railway Nottingham on the 125 Group Mk3 stock.
Depot Allocations
Darnall 11 01 62
Wath 12 01 64
Saltley 06 06 65
Wath 27 06 65
Tinsley 05 05 68
Thornaby 05 74
Tinsley 10 77
Immingham 09 79
Tinsley 01 80
Stratford 10 80
March 31 05 81
Thornaby 03 01 82
Immingham 02 85
Old Oak Common 10 01 87
Gateshead 04 10 87
Immingham 01 11 87
Old Oak Common 02 10 88
Bescot 27 11 88
Bescot DCMA 03 12 88
Immingham DCEA 19 03 89
Crewe PCDB 26 11 89
Immingham DCEA 30 03 90
Immingham RBJI 30 03 92
Immingham RBJW 22 05 93
Toton ENRN 18 03 94
Toton ENTN 17 01 95
Toton s/u ENTN 24 06 96 N/616
Toton s/u ENXX 26 07 96
Loco notes
11 01 62 Mirrlees p.u. 5728-5 fitted
31 07 64 Mirrlees p.u. 5443-135 fitted
20.10 67 Released from Doncaster works EE p.u. IH 7155 fitted in Blue
28 05 70 EE p.u. IH 7150 fitted
15 02 69 Boiler isolated
27 01 77 Boiler removed
11 02 85 Overhaul: dual braked and ETH fitted
13 02 85 Hauled the 13:00 Scarborough – Bangor (M 31450) – first ETH for coast
29 09 85 Hauled 2T15 21.53 Newark – Lincoln last loco hauled
10 05 86 Hauled the last Paddington – Hull
05 89 Overhaul Civil Engineers Livery applied- Immingham
10 10 91 Headlight fitted – Immingham (1993?)
01 92 Repainted in Dutch @ Immingham
30 01 98 Transferred by road from Toton to Quorn
03 02 98 Transferred from Quorn to Loughborough
19 02 98 De-registered
