Class 56 No. 56131 Ellington Colliery and Class 47/7 No. 47745 Royal London Society for the Blind on Ipswich fuel point on 28th December 1996.56131 was built at Crewe and added to stock at Gateshead on 29th April 1984 and to store at Immingham on 8th August 2002.The grid was sold to C.F.Booth in September 2005 but did not go to the scrapyard instead it went to Brush Traction, Loughborough on 3rd November 2005.The 56 moved back to Booths on 24th May 2007 and was cut up on 22nd December 2007.
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