The SR Merchant Navy class is a class of air-smoothed 4-6-2 steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by Oliver Bulleid. The Pacific design was chosen in preference to several others propose
Unrebuilt 35027 Port Line in July 1955
Rebuilt 35030 Elder Dempster Lines in May 1958, without casing and with Walschaerts valve gear
A driving wheel of the distinctive Bulleid Firth Brown design, seen here on No. 35010 Blue Star. Note the balance weight on the lower right, a feature not present on the Merchant Navy locomotives as-built.
21C18 British India Line hauling the Bournemouth Belle in 1946
35027 Port Line was one of a batch of ten SR Merchant Navy class steam locomotives built by the Southern Region of British Railways between 1948 and 1949.
35027 at the Bluebell Railway