35009, Shaw Savill

We generally run 7 now!

 

do you fill them?

 

True, but it will be good to see it running again, especially as next year marks 50 years since it was withdrawn. The owning group have spent about 30 years on this project, and for a small group, it must have been a considerable challenge to restore a complicated engine like a Merchant Navy. Good that the GWSR have provided them with a home, and a line on which to run, even if, as you say, it won't be unduly exerted (and will push up the railway's coal bill somewhat). The GWSR doesn't exactly have a surfeit of working engines, and more motive power will certainly be needed when the Broadway extension is open. I would also imagine that if 35006 will be sought as a guest engine at galas elsewhere, as it will probably be the only working MN apart from Clan Line when it does retrn to steam, although this is only guesswork on my part. If so, there are certainly one or two lines where it will have the chance to show its capabilities.

 

Check the class of engine in your own avatar!

Tom

 

35006 theoretically would be easier to come by for events as the mainliners would have to fit it in around tours and maintenance.

 

Would certainly love to see another MN grace the Bluebell one day, 35006 working up the 1:55 gradient could make quite a sound. Here's a scan I did recently of 35027 climbing past Holywell in the late 1990's from my Dad's collection.

 

Manors have 9/30. Nearly a third!

 

Not 100% of the time but yes due to lots of coach parties. On my last turn my parents were riding, and they (along with everyone else in the southern coach) wwre gibven an upgrade to first class to fit in a coach party.

 

Still not half the class though!

Tom

 

I guess with 100% preserved the BR std 8 class has the highest number preserved..

statistics.. and there's statistics

 

Big Al was specifically excluding preserved singletons like DoG... ;-) (post 44)

Tom

 

So what would be the biggest run of consecutively numbered locos surviving? I was thinking 35027, 35028 & 35029 but do the A4s win?


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Yep, the A4's are :
60007. Sir Nigel Gresley
60008. Dwight D Eisenhower
60009. Union of South Africa
60010. Dominion of Canada

 

Manors
7819 Hinton
7820 Dinmore
7821 Ditcheat
7822 Foxcote

 

And if you count the ex-WD locos, Nos. 190, 191, 192, 193 & 194 survive.

 

MNs in sequence are also 09,10 and 11. Light Pacifics are rather spread out, although quite a few remain in the 50s (51, 53, 58, 59), however it has to be said, we have at least one light pacific preserved in each sequence of ten locomotives between 1 and 110 (for example: 07, 16, 28, 39, 46, 53, 67, 70, 81, 92, 101).

 

A pity Schools class 927 didn't survive (we have 925, 926 and 928).

Tom