31407 - Mainline Blue - Exclusive Accessory Type_DCC Silent Decoder Additional internal weight

Additional internal weight

HIGH PERFORMANCE TRACTION and MECHANISM

Fledgling preservation schemes were face with having to purchase either industrial or scrapyard condition locomotives so the opportunity to purchase a working mainline locomotive was not passed up

and two styles of plated boiler panel

31407 - Mainline Blue - Exclusive Accessory Type_DCC Silent Decoder Additional internal weight31407 Mainline Blue Exclusive Revealed in February 1996 at an event at Toton TMD, 31407 was possibly the most surprising locomotive to be outshopped in the attractive aircraft blue house colours of Mainline Freight, one of the three shadow privatised freight operators spun off from the Trainload freight business in 1994. While the Class 31 fleet was in the process of being run down, this locomotive was selected because its electric train supply