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Great Preserved Locomotives 4 Merchant Navy No 35028 Clan Line By Stephen Austin
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Great Preserved Locomotives 4 Merchant Navy No 35028 Clan Line By Stephen Austin
Soft Cover
Copyright 1986
48 pages
Table of contents:
Preface
Introduction 3
The innovations and what
became of them4
The rebuilding of the
Bulleid Pacifies7
The 'MNs' in service11
Clan Line
(the 'Golden Arrow' Engine)22
The Great Trains25
'Merchant Navy' Locomotive
Preservation 30
Return to Steam main line
running33
The overhaul, 1980-8443
Mr O. V. S. Bulleid's 'Merchant Navy' class locomotives have often been described as the most controversial steam locomotives ever built. This is so in as much as nearly everyone who professes an interest in steam power and railways seems to feel compelled to express an opinion on them, and on the man responsible for their design and construction. Much of this stems from a pleasure in lively discussion of mechanical engineering matters; but we also tend to hear the grinding of personal axes in the political power-game, which has been the least acceptable aspect of the British Railway system. The time has surely come to lay aside carping criticism of the merits of any one man or his locomotives, and accept that they all have a place in the rich variety of our railway heritage.
Clan Line has a special place in the railway scene. To the technical student, she is the embodiment of several innovations to British locomotive practice, some successful, others not. To a generation of Londoners she is the holiday train which took them to the south coast or to glorious Devon. To the members of the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society she is, above all, the source of much hard work and shared satisfaction in our lives for some 20 years.
In attempting to describe the life and times of our locomotive, we are aware that we can only touch the surface in this booklet. However, the `MNs' are probably the most-studied locomotives in history, and for their careers up to 1967 the following books are recommended:
Bulleid of the Southern; H. A. V. Bulleid; Ian Allan
Bulleid Pacifies at Work; H. C. B. Rogers; Ian Allan
Bulleid Locomotives; B. Haresnape; Ian Allan Bulleid's Pacifies; D. W. Winkworth; Allen & Unwin
Locomotives of the Southern Railway Part 2;
D. L. Bradley; RCTS
Loco Profile 22, Merchant Navy Pacifies;
B. Reed; Profile Publications
Bulleid, Last Giant of Steam; S. Day-Lewis; Allen & Unwin
Many published works give the impression that what has happened to the Bulleid pacifies after 1967 is merely an epilogue to their careers. This is of course wholly untrue; Clan Line will soon join the increasing number of locomotives which have spent longer under their present owners than they did under British Railways. The recent story of steam belongs to the preservation societies and independent railways. It is a story of achievement in the finest tradition of railway service, but there is as yet no book which does it justice in the case of Clan Line.
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