In this modern age we all look horrified at such maintenance, but it was just normal for the time. I wonder what he was doing and if the Sulzer was just standing guard? The overhead insulators all appear to be wrapped up with cloth and therefore will need to be individually unwrapped! C E Steelesays I think this would have been September 1959. D5034 was released from Crewe Works at the start of that month and allocated to 31B March depot. It was definitely before the wires were energised in 1960