Class 31 - Original Railfreight - 31296 - DCC Sound Fitted BR Green Initially retaining its Europorte brandings

Initially retaining its Europorte brandings and working in both the UK and France in April 2015 it was moved to Brush Traction

The outstandingly flexible sound engine without a rigid flow chart facilitates a prototypical simulation of all conceivable rail vehicles

55001 – ‘St

As Built (HOP AB)

it was different in many subtle ways to the “as-built” 58001

Class 31 - Original Railfreight - 31296 - DCC Sound Fitted BR Green Initially retaining its Europorte brandings31296 Amlwch Freighter Trn Nwyddau Amlwch Railfreight (orange cantrail stripe)The first week of September 1986 saw recently refurbished 31296 plucked from anonymity for what was described at the time as a double first. Despatched to Anglesey in North Wales, the Cricklewood allocated locomotive became the first Class 31 (and Type 1 or Type 2) to be named as well as the first to receive dual Welsh and English nameplates, carrying Amlwch Freighter and