1948 Locomotive Exchanges: Southern Railway Pacific at Kilburn High Road on the Royal Scot out of Euston for Glasgow
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1948 Locomotive Exchanges: Southern Railway Pacific at Kilburn High Road on the Royal Scot out of Euston for Glasgow
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 3 May 1948
The three ex-SR participants (and one spare) on the 1948 Express Trials were all Bulleid 'Merchant Navy's' and were provided with LMS tenders with water-pickup as on their own Railway there were no water-troughs. Here is No. 35017 'Belgian Marine' on one of the preliminary runs without dynamometer car - to Carlisle. It was built 4/45 as No. 21C17, rebuilt in 3/57 and withdrawn in 7/66, but was not preserved - perhaps because it came last in the Race owing to its higher fuel consumption. (An indifferent photograph, taken in the rain in a great rush).
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