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Test Runs of 35018 "British India Line"
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18/05/2017 - SR 4-6-2 - Merchant Navy class - 35018 "British India Line" on 5M51 - a test run from Carnforth to Hellifield and return with pictures from Giggleswick Station, entering Long Preston and Hellifield Station. The Engine ran painted black and with a TOPS number 98818 chalked on the cab sides and smokebox and also the nameplates off another SR Region pacific "Bodmin"
17/08/2017 - Another test run around the Carnforth - Hellifield - Blackburn circuit. Still black and no nameplate but now painted Tops numbers on its cab sides. Running nearly three hours late, I managed to see it near Eldroth, Long Preston, Hellifield Station & Hellifield Green plus Langho... and pass it at Settle Junction and Chatburn.. but no pictures.
35018 "British India Line" was one of the first batch of twenty SR Merchant Navy Class steam locomotives to be built by the Southern Railway in 1945.She was withdrawn from service in August 1964 and was sold onto Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales where she arrived in December of the same year.
"British India Line" was to remain at Barry Scrapyard for 16 years until November 1979 when she was purchased for preservation and in March 1980, she was moved to the Mid Hants Railway, she was later moved to a site in Portland in Dorset, but was moved once again in 2012 to the former 10A steam shed at Carnforth, Lancashire where since then she underwent a thorough restoration to working order and modern mainline standards.
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