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More from the archive, both S-VHS and Digital: Merchant Navy class 4-6-2, 35028 Clan Line at work on the main line between 1990 and 2001, plus an afternoon spent at Southall depot with members of the MNLPS.<\/p>\n

(approx. running time: 63 minutes)<\/p>\n

Built by the British Railways Southern Region in 1948 to the design of O.V.S. Bulleid, and rebuilt in 1959, Clan Line was the antepenultimate member of the Merchant Navy class. In his book “Bulleid Power: The Merchant Navy Class”, A.J. Fry (no relation, AFAIK), states “Fitted with a speedometer in July 1961, on the down Atlantic Coast Express on September 23rd of that year it attained 104 mph near Axminster”.<\/p>\n

She was purchased by the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society when withdrawn from Nine Elms in July 1967, the only member of the class not to be sold for scrap, and returned to the main line in April 1974. This programme shows her at work on the main line between 1990 and 2001. I’m very grateful to Adrian & Jackie Pallant for permission to include some of their footage taken in 2000 and 2001.<\/p>\n

Pre 1990: Stills showing Clan Line at Marylebone, Stratford Upon Avon, Salisbury, on the West Of England main line, and at Waterloo.<\/p>\n

1990<\/span><\/h2>\n