31625 at Ropley in 1997

Following on from my previous two images:
31625 is a Maunsell U class loco built at Ashford Works in 1929 and it was withdrawn from service by British Railways at the beginning of 1964. It arrived at Woodham's scrapyard at Barry in June of that year. After languishing in the sea air for almost sixteen years it was rescued for preservation and arrived on the Mid Hants Railway in 1980.

Seen here outside the workshops at Ropley on the MHR in 1997, about a year after it first steamed in the 'preservation era'.

A scan from a 35mm SupaSnaps slide. SupaSnaps were a low cost photo processing outlet on most UK high streets.