Bulleid Pacifics - Past or Present

34058 you mean, not 34048 as that was scrapped! Plus 35005 is leaving MHR soon which will leave them with 4 and in a couple of years of course 34016 will go. I would think Bury is at the top with 35009, 35022, 35027, 34073 and if the rumours are true, 35018 soon. Sellindge only has 35011 & 35025. Swanage has 34070 & 34028 plus 34072 & 34053 at Herston works with parts of 34010 somewhere? though her boiler is still at Bridgnorth so i doubt she counts as a whole Bulleid at Swanage at the moment!

 

Sidmouth's frames are by the trackside of the Swanage Railway. Most of the components are at Herston. The driving wheels are being used on Sir Keith Park following the reshuffled between Sidmouth, Sir Keith Park and Eddystone. http://www.southern-locomotives.co.uk/34010/34010_Restoration.html

Sidmouth's boiler is still at Bridgnorth, and various components were recently recovered. The boiler may come back to Herston in the not-too-distant future.

http://www.southern-locomotives.co.uk/News/news.html

 

Good news about CP. At least she won't get into the state that 34105 did in the sidings. I wonder if any timings will be available for the move to Eastleigh?

 

Oops, the 4-key is too close to the 5-key ;-) I did say "at the moment", so I think Bodmin can be counted in the Ropley list. I like to think of Eastleigh as a sub-shed of Ropley these days! We should probably count Sidmouth as being at Swanage, since that's where her frames are. So honours fairly even between Ropley, Bury and Swanage.

Who has the most in working order at the moment? Swanage with Manston and Eddystone?

 

Try Sir FREDERICK Pile.

 

She will be moving with 34039's tender, which goes from eastleigh back to the GCR I belive

 

Things really are moving apace where Bulleids are concerned at the moment! I type this with a beaming smile and a single thought in my head... about time too !

 

I did wonder how they would move her without a tender (as CP's is now behind 34007). Anyone know how soon the move is?

 

Sorry to be thick, but why do you need to move it with a tender? Genuine lack of knowledge here - I always assumed that there was a handbrake on the loco as well as the tender.

Tobbes

 

No handbrake on loco.

 

Thanks - that explains that, then! : )

 

not to mension lack of buffers and drawhook on cab end of loco if being moved via network rail 35005 will need a tender that has been checked and passed as fit to run over NR metals so i should imagine that 34007 could borrow swanages tender until her new one is ready as the tender off 35005 has already been checked for when it was sent to Eastleigh ?

 

If you read back in this thread you will find that 34039's tender (ex 34007) is being used. It will then be dispatched to Loughborough by road. 35005's tender is being prepared for use with 34007 at Ropley.

 

With any luck the timings should be posted on Wessex Rail Gen?

 

I wonder if 35022 when she is restored will come out in Brunswick Green but with the small BR early crest on its tender. I did see a picture in a book of 35022 in this form.Would be a nice change from the late crest that 35005,35027 and 35028 have carried and presumably 35006 will carry when she returns.

 

Dan, hi

Interesting - I thought only '18 as the first rebuilt carried the early totem. Do you have a reference?

Thanks,

Toby

 

Its from a book called The Southern Pacifics - Bulleid's Radical Design by Roger J Mannion I've had it many years. There are also a pictures of 35014 and 35026 as well as 35022 in this condition.

 

From memory, 35008, 35009, 35010, 35012, 35013, 35014, 35016, 35017, 35018, 35020, 35021, 35022, 35023, 35025, 35026, 35027 had the early crest when rebuilt (Eastleigh Works Order No. 7998 of 1956-1957). However, I believe that the rest were fitted with the later crest from the outset (Order No. 9199 1958-1959). Anyone else able to add/modify this list?

 

I hope they turn up on here or the UKsteam info page.