73131 County of Surrey

Several locos and units have been named incorporating Surrey as part of their names, all in the diesel and electric era.

As I haven't attended the University of Surrey I didn't model the class 73 named after the institution, 73117. There was a Wessex Electric (42)2423 County of Surrey which carried its name until 2007. According to RailUK, two class 319 units were named The Surrey Hills at various times, 319013 between 1999-2001 and from 2012 and 319001 in 2001.

The "Dutch" yellow/grey engineering livery appealed to me so I chose to model 73131 which ran in that condition between 1991-93. My model is based on Hornby's R2765 version with a Bachmann 36-553 chip added for DCC.