Is it 35022 or 35027

Afternoon everybody.
I was passing thro' Southall yesterday and saw the Merchant Navy. Question is was it 35022 or 35027. Frames had boiler attached and next to it cab sides with the number 35022. I thought the boiler for 35022 was at Crewe being worked on. Is it 35022 frames with 35027 boiler or what ? Please help . Thanks

 

That would be the remains of 35022. Only preliminary work has been done to 35027. Hopefully once 34046 and 70000 are finished then 35027 will get her turn.

 

Horrible to read of 35022, as "the remains of 35022".

Lovely run behind her on 23rd July 1964 on the down ACE. Fred Hoare driving, Peter Allen firing. 73 minutes net to Salisbury, (schedule 80 mins for 83.7 miles). Just under 70 over MP 31, over 90 through Andover, 70 over Grateley. As well as a number of other very good runs with her.

 

I know of at least 1 Bournemouth engineman who, when asked by the then fledgling MNLPS which one was the best, told them it was 35022.

 

And she hauled the last down "fast" ACE on 4th September 1964.

http://nick301.photos.us.com/c1225803.html

 

Sorry Kent Yeti. Most inappropriate comment. Must think a little bit harder before I type.
Richard

 

Richard, nothing at all wrong with your comment!

But some of us go all misty eyed when Merchant Navy's get talked about.

 

Yes. Good run with Driver Sibley. Not sure why I wasn't on it.

 

35028 had put up some superb performances and was also a very good choice. I'd have preferred 35003 as she was consistently a very free running and very fast loco. But having been on the footplate of Royal Mail that first night of the "Burridge Week" in June 1967 at 106 mph of course I'd say that wouldn't I! LOL!

 

Is it Driver Sibley is this photo? http://nick301.photos.us.com/p39225983.html In my caption I refer to him as a Nine Elms driver (he drove the ACE from Waterloo to Salisbury that day), but I have subsequently read that Salisbury drivers crewed the down ACE, having come up to London on an early train. Which depot did Driver Sibley work from?

Any idea who drove from Salisbury to Exeter? As I recall the train was eased after Crewkerne, and didn't break any records that day.

 

The frames, wheels and cab etc belong to 35022. The boiler is 35027s, which has been swapped with 35022's for the time being as 35022's is in better condition.