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Seen from the Windsor lines at Waterloo on the 30th of April 1965, 4MT 80143 is acting as Station Pilot, Merchant Navy 35027 Port Line is waiting to depart and Battle of Britain 34050 Royal Observer Corps is light engine.
Continuing with scenes from Poole here is Merchant Navy 35007 ABERDEEN COMMONWEALTH leaving the station with a train bound for Waterloo on 23rd February 1967.
23 2 1967.
Network Rail has been busy replacing the fencing along the line at Brockham, Surrey, and the stark new structure snakes up the field in front of the passing Belmond Pullman, with the fireman apparently hard at work, judging by the fresh smoke just emanating from the chimney.
Ex Southern Railway rebuilt 'Merchant Navy' pacific 35018 'British India Line' under the wires south of Warrington Bank Quay.
Merchant Navy 35030 Elder Dempster Line is seen arriving at Exeter Central on the down Atlantic Coast Express on the 19th of May 1964.
1964/09/12.R1924. In the late summer afternoon sun, rebuilt Bulleid Merchant Navy class Pacific 35022 HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE passes through Basingstoke with the all Pullman 'Bournemouth Belle'.
12th September, 1964. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
“The twenty-four thousand of the merchant navy and fishing fleets, whose names are honoured on the walls of this garden gave their life for their country and have no grave but the sea”
Tower Hill Memorial, Trinity Square, London
ex-SR and BR 'Merchant Navy' class Pacific 35005 'Canadian Pacific' found sanctuary at Steamtown Railway Museum, Carnforth, Lancashire, UK after rescue from Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in 1973. Little restoration was done at Steamtown and she wasn't steamed till 1990.
In 1978 Steamtown was home to 7 named and 6 unnamed ex-BR engines, plus 3 from Europe and 9 industrials.
Pentax ME. Epson V500 scan. 35mm Kodachrome 25 slide.
ex-SR Merchant Navy Class, 35028 'Clan Line',coasts down Wellington Bank, near Beambridge, with the return leg of the Atlantic Coast Express railtour (1Z84 1640 Exeter St Davids to London Waterloo via Westbury) on 2nd July 2022.
Bulleid Merchant Navy class pacific No. 35017 Belgian Marine storming away from Otford Jcn with a Victoria - Canterbury christmas dining train.
1979, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean on the Shell supertanker 'Labiosa'.
The ship's unique Callsign 'GUKN' is displayed beneath the clock. 'Redifon' brand transmitter/receivers.
Once, an absolute necessity on board every ship, the Radio Room, aka Radio shack, was equipped for worldwide communications.
It was necessary to be in touch with the ship-owning company, the charterers (where appropriate), the agents, local authorities, and a host of other contacts, not least for emergencies.
Most ships had one Radio Officer, universally known as 'Sparks', often employed by one of the major companies that provided the equipment, such as Marconi, Rediffusion, Kelvin Hughes & etc., or sometimes they were directly employed by the shipping company.
The Radio Officer not only operated the radio equipment, but also repaired and maintained it.
The main source of emergency assistance in the oceans has always been the nearest deep-sea ship to your own.
Radio Officers kept watch on the international distress frequency in order to render assistance to ships in trouble. There was an an automated listening device for when Sparks was off duty, so if a distress signal was received, it would set off an alarm in his/her cabin. The cabin was *always* immediately adjacent to the shack.
When their own ship was in distress, they stayed at the morse key until assistance was at hand.
Their working hours were an anomaly, in that they kept to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), wherever we were in the world.
For the rest of us, it was necessary to frequently adjust our clocks by an hour, forwards or backwards, as we crossed lines of longitude. This meant that watchkeepers had to adjust to the 'new' time by working either 20 minutes less, or 20 minutes more, on each watch
(Six watches a day, on deck and in the engine room: 0000-0400, 0400-0800, 0800-1200, 1600-2000 & 2000-2359.
Each watchkeeper would work two corresponding shifts per day, thus 12-4, 4-8 or 8-12.)
As radio communications went digital, shipboard electronics improved dramatically, and with worldwide internet availability, the sparks job morphed into an ETO (Electro-Technical Officer), and then disappeared.
Nowadays, all the rather compact radio equipment is contained on the navigating bridge.
No more morse code, no more radio officers.
35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co at Cheltenham Racecourse
built at Eastleigh locomotive works in December 1941 and was allocated to Salisbury Shed where it remained based throughout her working life until withdrawn in August 1964 and sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry. The remains of 35006 were purchased for preservation in 1983 with the intention of restoring it to running order. The locomotive was moved to Toddington and was the 144th locomotive to leave the scrapyard.
Restoration has been a long drawn out affair. On 10 August 2015 35006 moved under its own power for the first time in under 50 years. The first public runs were during the GWSR's Cotswold Festival of steam gala at the end of May when I saw the locomotive. It looked fantastic and performed superbly.
The Anglegarth was built in 1996 and currently operates within the Firth of Clyde and surrounding waters.
35027 was completed at Eastleigh Works in 1948 as part of the third series built after nationalisation with larger 6,000 gallon tenders. It did not acquire its own tender until April 1949 and was originally fitted with a West Country 4,500 gallon tender.
It was initially allocated to Bournemouth shed where it would primarily have been used on express trains bound for London Waterloo. In 1950 Port Line was painted in BR express blue and transferred to Stewarts Lane in March 1950 to work the Golden Arrow Pullman. It returned back to Bournemouth in May 1955.
Along with the rest of the class Port Line was rebuilt by removal of the air-smoothed casing (at Eastleigh in 1957) and this rebuilding made them more like the BR Standard class engines of the time.
In April 1959 Port Line achieved the rare honour for a member of the class of hauling the Royal train from Windsor to Hamworthy Junction, at which place the train was berthed overnight.
It was withdrawn in September 1966 and sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry where it arrived in March of the following year. When withdrawn 35027 had only accumulated a total mileage in service of 872,290 miles.
Port Line stayed in the scrapyard until December 1982, following its purchase for £6,500 for preservation by The Port Line Locomotive Project in January 1982 and taken to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway where restoration commenced. As the locomotive was boxed in at Barry because of the number of engines there it took from January until December to enable it to be moved out of the yard.
Restoration work started at the former Swindon works but after three years the locomotive moved to the Swindon Works weighbridge and 19 Shop in 1988 where the work was completed. This later site was owned by Tarmac Properties .
After restoration Port Line ran on the Bluebell Railway from 1988 until 1996 when it was taken out of service.
It was to become the first ex Barry Merchant Navy to return to steam, this was achieved in 1988.
35027 moved to the Swanage Railway in early 2000, further boiler work allowing it to operate a limited number of steamings from 2000 until 2003, when it was stopped with firebox cracks.
Port Line was sold in 2005 to Jeremy Hosking, and moved to Southall.
From 2007-2011 35027’s tender had been in use with rebuilt West Country class 34046 Braunton, owned by Hosking. It was until recently in use behind unrebuilt West Country class 34007 Wadebridge.
In 2011 it was transferred to the Royal Scot Locomotive and General Trust (RSL>). Port Line was moved to Ian Riley’s workshops at Bury on the East Lancashire Railway for overhaul to mainline standard, using the boiler from 35022 Holland America Line.
The parts of the locomotive were subsequently moved to Crewe.
source: Preserved British Steam Locomotives preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/35027-port-line/
Southern Railway Merchant Navy Pacific 4-6-2 35005 Canadian Pacific passed through Leicester on the Midland line on a railtour north. Here it is waiting in Platform 1 at London Road station in the rain.
I had the great privilege to fire 35005 when it visited the Great Central Railway in September 2006.
WCRs SR Merchant Navy Class n° 35018 ‘British India line’ or ‘BIL’ for short powers through Oxenholme Lake District with 47802 on the rear 19/03/32
Best viewed Oriiginal size.
Preserved & rebuilt Bulleid "Merchant Navy" class 8P 4-6-2 35028 "Clan Line" pictured in York (YK) TMD yard en-route to the National Railway Museum - 17/10/1978.
The Merchant Navy and other NRM exhibits are being shunted by 08170.
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Rebuilt Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' pacific on a train of Pullman carriages - possibly the 'Bournemouth Belle' - passing Queens Road (Battersea) station, in the mid-60s.
Queens Road (Battersea) was renamed to Queenstown Road (Battersea) in 1980.
Restored from an unfocussed grainy orange-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
Scarborough Station
North Yorkshire
UK
7 June 2018
Merchant Navy class 35018 British India Line at Scarborough on the Scarborough Spa Express. The excursion had originated from Dumfries and was steam-hauled from York to Scarborough and back to York.
The train is cautiously reversed out of the station to be serviced and prepared for its later departure.
Built 1948. In early BR blue livery.
The Devon Belle ran between London Waterloo and Ilfracombe/Plymouth between 1947 and 1954.
The Brocklebank Shipping Line operated from 1785 to 1983.
Salmon Postcard in Collection
Immaculately presented Merchant Navy class Pacific 35006 'Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Co.' trundles past a 'shop' full of memorabilia at Toddington station on the Gloucestershire Warwckshire Railway on 7 July 2016. The Bulleid Pacific made its public debut at the end of May following three decades of restoration work.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
The star of the show: 35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co at Toddington:
built at Eastleigh locomotive works in December 1941 and was allocated to Salisbury Shed where it remained based throughout her working life until withdrawn in August 1964 and sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry. The remains of 35006 were purchased for preservation in 1983 with the intention of restoring it to running order. The locomotive was moved to Toddington and was the 144th locomotive to leave the scrapyard.
Restoration has been a long drawn out affair. On 10 August 2015 35006 moved under its own power for the first time in under 50 years. The first public runs were during the GWSR's Cotswold Festival of steam gala at the end of May when I saw the locomotive. It looked fantastic and performed superbly.
35028 Clan Line blowing out an excessive amount of steam after taking on water at Shalford station, near Guildford. The noise was deafening, especially in the young ears of a child.
Carrying a headboard entitled "British Pullman" this train was a VSOE Luncheon Excursion from London Victoria to...er um ...London Victoria - via the thrilling locations of Staines (on Thames), Woking, Guildford, Reigate and East Croydon.
Twenty miles out from the capital already, on it's headlong dash for the south coast - Merchant Navy Class, 35013 Blue Funnel hurtles through Byfleet & New Haw station with a Saturday Waterloo to Bournemouth express.
Circa 1964. © David Hill
Merchant Navy No. 35005 CANADIAN PACIFIC approaches Eastleigh station with empty stock from the nearby carriage sidings on 19th April 2002.
The intended working, Eastleigh to Yeovil Junction and return, was part of a week of E.W.S. steam crew training runs for which tickets were made available to the public. Unfortunately, the train passed the platform 3 starting signal set at danger and the train was cancelled pending brake tests. [Ref. Six Bells Junction]
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35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co at Winchcombe
built at Eastleigh locomotive works in December 1941 and was allocated to Salisbury Shed where it remained based throughout her working life until withdrawn in August 1964 and sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry. The remains of 35006 were purchased for preservation in 1983 with the intention of restoring it to running order. The locomotive was moved to Toddington and was the 144th locomotive to leave the scrapyard.
Restoration has been a long drawn out affair. On 10 August 2015 35006 moved under its own power for the first time in under 50 years. The first public runs were during the GWSR's Cotswold Festival of steam gala at the end of May when I saw the locomotive. It looked fantastic and performed superbly.
Best viewed Original size.
Bulleid "Merchant Navy" class 8P 4-6-2 35018 "British India Line" accelerates away from Bournemouth Central with the up "Bournemouth Belle" Pullman express to Waterloo - c.1956.
© 2016 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 120 monochrome negative; photograph by the late James S Doubleday.
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Taken from a Danish freighter at an unknown location.
Circa 1965-6.
I expect you have all seen similar images on the Internet of weather fronts, or sand storms, advancing like this, but you have not seen this one before!
Photo taken in the mid 1960's, possibly 1966, from a ship at sea. The derricks are topped (raised) so the ship is not far from port.
(If anybody is interested, it was taken from a Danish freighter, either:
'Mads Skou', IMO 5216771 or
'Helle Skou', IMO 5147059. I cannot tell which one of them it is.
The image may be flipped, I cannot tell.
Scanned from a poor quality slide from the collection of the late Niels Anker Larsen, former Danish Merchant Navy Radio Officer.
Copyright owned by self.
S/S Alexandr Pouchkine (Александр Пушкин) .
Le navire a été construit par le chantier Mathias Thesen à Wismar, en Allemagne de l'Est, et a été livré en 1965 à la Baltic Shipping Company (URSS)
IMO: 6417097
MMSI: 308693000
pavillon : Bahamas
Longueur: 176,3 m x 23,60 m
Passagers : 750
S / S Alexandr Pushkin.
The ship was built by the Mathias Thesen shipyard in Wismar, East Germany, and was delivered to the Baltic Shipping Company (USSR) in 1965,
IMO: 6417097
MMSI: 308693000
Pavilion: Bahamas
Length: 176.3 mx 23.60 m
Passengers: 750
Thomas Allen who lost both legs after 14 days adrift in a lifeboat sitting in a wheel chair with other members of the lifeboat pictured at Erskine House re- habilitating in 1941.
Their ship was sunk by a German U-boat in the early hours of 2nd October 1941 between Iceland and Greenland 31 men in the lifeboat rowed 500 miles to Iceland where they were rescued by the fishing trawler "Surprise" the men were taken to Iceland to recover and eventually to Erskine. three men eventually died of their injuries.
picture kindly donated by his grandson Richard Turner.
Read the story m.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/empire-wave.html
Nine Elms thought to be around 1963 and Merchant Navy 35024 East Asiatic Company is being prepared by the looks of it.
New to BR from Eastleigh Works in November 1948 the loco was withdrawn in January 1965 and was cut up by Woodfield and Sons in Newport the following May.
Image from a negative in my collection taken by an unknown photographer.
Rebuilt SR Merchant Navy 4-6-2 35013 BLUE FUNNEL passes under Battledown flyover with the down Atlantic Coast Express to Plymouth and other destinations in Devon and Cornwall.
This loco was built by the Southern Railway at Eastleigh in 1945 and rebuilt in 1956. Allocated to Exmouth Junction shed (72A). 07/03/1964 [GB 042].
Preserved "Merchant Navy" 35006 'Peninsular & Oriental S.N.Co" heads away from Cheltenham Racecourse station with a service for Toddington,on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway - 29.5.16.
35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co runs in to Winchcombe
built at Eastleigh locomotive works in December 1941 and was allocated to Salisbury Shed where it remained based throughout her working life until withdrawn in August 1964 and sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry. The remains of 35006 were purchased for preservation in 1983 with the intention of restoring it to running order. The locomotive was moved to Toddington and was the 144th locomotive to leave the scrapyard.
Restoration has been a long drawn out affair. On 10 August 2015 35006 moved under its own power for the first time in under 50 years. The first public runs were during the GWSR's Cotswold Festival of steam gala at the end of May when I saw the locomotive. It looked fantastic and performed superbly.