35018 British India Line at Bamfurlong - 04th June 2024

SR Merchant Navy Class 35018 "British India Line" passes through Bamfurlong with a full rake of stock on the early afternoon of Tuesday 4th June 2024.

The steam locomotive was working a locomotive and empty coaching stock movement from Carnforth to Southall ahead of another railtour down south. She was running pretty much on time here having been held to time at Preston and at Balshaw Lane for late running Avanti services.

She was in fine form here and I could really get that distinctive water/steam smell you get from steam engines.

35018 British India Line was one of the first batch of twenty Southern Railway ‘Merchant Navy’ Class steam locomotives to be built by the Southern Railway in 1945. Completed at Eastleigh Works in May 1945, British India Line was first allocated to Nine Elms shed, where it was to remain for most of its career, under both the Southern Railway and British Railways. 

35018 was withdrawn from service in August 1964 and then eventually in 2012 it was moved to the former 10A steam shed at Carnforth, Lancashire where since then it has undergone a thorough restoration to working order and modern mainline standards by the West Coast Railway Company. The locomotive is currently out-shopped in BR Brunswick Green with the late BR crest. 

The official working today 5Z42 1126 Carnforth Steamtown to Southall Wcr


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Filmed at Bamfurlong
Filmed Tuesday 4th June 2024

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