57310 "Kyrano" Willesden Depot 12 06 2006

            Apologies for the poor long distance record photo with my crappy first Kodak digital camera 🙏

Thunderbird loco 57310 named "Kyrano" is stabled outside Willesden Depot.

Built as a Class 47 at BR Crewe Works, it was delivered into service with BR as D1618 on 5 September 1964 and allocated new to 16A Toton.

In June 1972, it was transferred to 55B York for 2 months then 41A Tinsley in August 1972.

Renumbered to 47037 in March 1974 under TOPS and moved a month later to Immingham, it stayed there until May 1977, when it headed to Haymarket and the Scottish Region.

it was rebuilt as 47563 on 14 January 1980 when its steam heating boiler was removed and ETH installed.

It received its first nameplate on 28 April 1987 when it was named "Women's Guild".

This nameplate was removed when it went into BREL Crewe Works for upgrades and long-range fuel tanks. 

On 12 May 1989, it emerged as 47831 for use on Cross Country services carrying new nameplates "Bolton Wanderer".

Under privatisation, it was sold to Porterbrook and leased to Virgin Cross Country (Pool: ILRA).

Due off lease at the end of July 2002 as the Virgin Voyagers took over, it last worked around 20 June 2002 and was then stored at Toton.

It was sent to Brush, Loughborough in early August 2002 for assessment before being allocated to the Class 57 "Bodysnatcher" project in September 2002. (A couple of 47s were rejected with frame damage, so it was a late allocation to this project).

On 18 July 2003, it was first noted renumbered as 57310 while undergoing final static tests.

On 28 July 2003, it was released to Virgin Trains’ ATLO "Thunderbird" loco pool, carrying the nameplate "Kyrano".

It received Dellner couplers for the Pendalino's and was allocated to the ATTB pool in August 2004 (later changed to the ICWA pool).

After 6 years with Virgin, they didn't need as many Thunderbirds following the WCML upgrades.  So 6 of the 16 locos were stored at Eastleigh Works in September 2010, including 57310. 

The 6 locos were handed back to Porterbrook.

On 22 August 2011, 57310 and the other 5 locos were leased to Network Rail with a handover ceremony at Wembley Repair Depot. Painted into NR's yellow livery & losing the "Kyrano" nameplate, it was allocated to the QADD pool.

The NR idea was to use them on the Southern Region for snowplough and de-icing duties, shunting and plant moves, and as emergency rescue operations. By July 2014, this project was seen as a failure. 

The 6 locos were re-leased to DRS - Direct Rail Services who used them until mid-2023, including ironically on the WCML Thunderbird contract.

Handed back to Porterbrook, 57310 was then leased in June 2023 by GBRF - GB Railfreight, who in May 2024, repainted it into the smart looking GBRF livery.

Not bad for a 60 years old loco 😊 👍

Taken on: June 12, 2006

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Camera: Kodak DX6490 Zoom, f/3.7, 1/350 sec, 63mm (more info) (hide info)

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