Nine Elms Shed
A 1967 view of Bulleid designed former Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class pacific 35003 'Royal Mail', seen on Nine Elms Shed ready for the off to Waterloo Station on 2 April 1967. The nameplate and crest are missing from the boiler side, no doubt due to the imminent cessation of steam on the Southern. The loco is in rebuilt form with traditional valve gear, as opposed to the air-smoothed casing over the boiler, and use of chain drive, when entering service in September 1941, numbered as 21C3. It was withdrawn in July 1967 three months after this view, and scrapped at Cashmores in Newport, S Wales in December 1967.
Location: Nine Elms Shed (former)
Original line: London and South Western Railway
Photographer: David Pesterfield
Contact photographer: David Pesterfield
Date: 02/04/1967
Image number: 80327
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