The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, or "flat tops", are air-smoothed 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotives designed for
Unrebuilt 34067 Tangmere at Salisbury in July 1963
Rebuilt 34100 Appledore at Westbury in June 1966
The distinctive Bulleid Firth Brown wheels, seen here on 34072 257 Squadron
34016 Bodmin taking water at Alton
The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the "Big Four".
SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes
…conventional design at Eastleigh between 1957 and 1961. The first locomotive to be rebuilt was No. 34005 Barnstaple, which adopted many features from the BR 'Standard' locomotive classes. The casing was removed and replaced with conventional boiler cladding, boiler pressure reduced to 250 psi (1.72 MPa) and the chain-driven valve gear…
ex-Great Western Railway No. 6833 Calcot Grange, a 4-6-0 Grange class steam locomotive, at Bristol Temple Meads railway station
553 ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0s were acquired from the War Department. 90035 was one of them.
94XX class pannier tank, built by BR.
BR-built LNER Thompson Class B1 61306 at Leeds City in 1966 or 1967.