The non-fluted coupling rod identifies No 31743 as a Class D1 rather than a Class E1, at Brighton in June 1954. In the background, Class E3 No 32165 is the station pilot.
31743 built (as Class D) 1903; w/d February 1960. 32165 built 1894; w/d November 1959.

© David P Williams Archive /Rail-Online Original Photograph by Peter Hay