35006 P&O
35006 'Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co' - Rebuilt Merchant Navy class express passenger locomotive, built 1941; rebuilt 1959. Owned by The 35006 Locomotive Company Limited and coming towards the end of its restoration at Toddington.
- 4-6-2
- Southern Railway, designed by O V S Bulleid
- 1941
- 151 tons
- 5000 gallons
- Designed as a 'fast mixed traffic' loco, the three-cylinder 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, receiving the BR power classification 8P, and dispensing with the air smoothed casing and chain valve gear but retaining many of the Bulleid features, including the very free-steaming boiler. 'P & O' was based at Salisbury throughout its life and was withdrawn in 1964. In 1983 its present owners rescued it from Barry and brought it to Toddington.