Bulleid Pacifics - Past or Present

why go

Why go to the bother of removing all the nonferrous parts And the extra bother of getting at the axle boxes only to store them for safekeeping? I’d love to know where this mountain of nonferrous parts was hidden over the several years it took for the locomotives to come out of the yard.

 

Not heard of Eddystone then or the first MN to return to the mainline that’s still there now. I look forward to the day when Simeon up there gets the valve events of Tangmere right so it actually sounds like a Bulleid.

 

Erm, us “southerners” started the club.

 

SLL has updated its Latest News page to record the return of 34028 Eddystone to the main line. https://www.southern-locomotives.co.uk/News/news.html

 

During the Watercress Line engineering open weekend a couple of weeks ago 35005 Canadian Pacific briefly operated a with slight modification to her livery as a National Lottery Heritage fund plaque was placed over the BR emblem on the tender.
Here she is at Ropley carrying the plaque which was taken off at Alton:

 

Below is an image I captured on the final day (5th October) of the excellent Watercress Line Autumn steam Gala. It is of 34059 recreating a scene from her past but a scene that is now very much in the present as evidenced by the crowd all capturing the non stop express run on their mobile phone cameras. The loco crew are exchanging tokens with the signalman as 34059 powers through Ropley in fine style, shaking the platforms like the trains used to.

 

A typically detailed news update from SLL, although it does dedicate a large part to their non-Bulleid loco: https://www.southern-locomotives.co.uk/News/news.html