50 Years On
Fifty years to the day since the end of steam traction operated by BR on the Southern region from Waterloo, there were probably very few who would have dared hope that such a thing would happen again so long after 'the end'. Here it is though - the 'Waterloo Sunset' tour, pounding through Raynes Park, having been allocated the rare privilege by Network Rail of a path down the main line to mark the historic occasion. Bulleid pacific 35028 'Clan Line', fresh from a major overhaul, makes efforts to recoup lost time after a trespassing incident earlier near Clapham Junction.
These locomotives, named after Merchant Navy lines when they were introduced in 1941, were the most powerful steam engines used by the Southern Region of British Rail, and the last of the class, 35030 'Elder Dempster Lines', hauled the very last passenger working on 9 July 1967.
50 Years On
Fifty years to the day since the end of steam traction operated by BR on the Southern region from Waterloo, there were probably very few who would have dared hope that such a thing would happen again so long after 'the end'. Here it is though - the 'Waterloo Sunset' tour, pounding through Raynes Park, having been allocated the rare privilege by Network Rail of a path down the main line to mark the historic occasion. Bulleid pacific 35028 'Clan Line', fresh from a major overhaul, makes efforts to recoup lost time after a trespassing incident earlier near Clapham Junction.
These locomotives, named after Merchant Navy lines when they were introduced in 1941, were the most powerful steam engines used by the Southern Region of British Rail, and the last of the class, 35030 'Elder Dempster Lines', hauled the very last passenger working on 9 July 1967.