31625 with a Reading to Guildford freight

...just before Ash in Hampshire 15th June 1963

A scan of a 35mm slide, by the late Trevor B. Owen from which copyright was recently released.

31625 is a Maunsell U class loco built at Ashford Works in 1929. It was withdrawn from service by British Railways at the beginning of 1964 and sold as scrap to Woodham's Brothers in south Wales, arriving at their scrapyard in June of that year.