35005 Canadian Pacific
35005 'Canadian Pacific' - Rebuilt Merchant Navy class express passenger locomotive, built 1941 and originally numbered 21C5; rebuilt 1959. Can Pac is normally based on the Mid-Hants Railway but spent a season on the GWR in 2006.
- 4-6-2
- Southern Railway
- 1941
- 151 tons
- 5000 gallons
- Designed as a 'fast mixed traffic' loco, the Merchant Navy class introduced a number of novel features such as an air-smoothed casing and enclosed chain driven valve gear. 30 of the class were built between 1941 and 1949 and could be found hauling the Southern's premier expresses from Victoria and Waterloo. In the late fifties all were rebuilt, dispensing with the air smoothed casing and chain valve gear but retaining many of the Bulleid features. Can Pac was initially based at Salisbury but spent time at Exmouth, Nine Elms and Bournemouth before ending its days at Weymouth in 1965.