Modified Bulleid MN "Merchant Navy" Class 4-6-2
| Restoring a locomotive is never a simple task. Some take a long time and some take simply ages! Most restorations are done with fairly primitive facilities, often in the open air, as few can afford the facilities of the likes of the Bluebell Railway or Southern Locomotives Ltd. Where covered workshop space is available there is usually tough competition to be able to use it! The photos on this and the next page are of the bits 'n' pieces of 35035 Brocklebank Line, strewn around the Loughborough premises of the Great Central Railway. |
| Brocklebank Line is one of the Southern locos
currently in bits distributed all around the Loughborough Works of the Great
Central Railway. This is the first of a series of pictures taken on 28 June
2003, starting with the frames, wheels, bogie and pony truck, but not much
else!
photograph by Colin Duff |
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The left hand cab side painted in BR express blue livery it would never
have carried in its modified incarnation
photograph by Colin Duff |
| By comparison, the right hand side of the cab is in faded
Brunswick Green livery.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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Suspension detail on the pony truck.
photograph by Colin Duff |
| Drivers and brake hangers.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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The bogie and unclad cylinders.
photograph by Colin Duff |
| Even without the painted on numbers this is instantly
recognisable as a modified Bulleid tender top.
photograph by Colin Duff |
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The oval aperture betrays this is a Bulleid smokebox front.
photograph by Colin Duff |
review of Hornby's OO gauge model
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This page was last updated 3 February 2003
