Southern Railway designed Bulleid ‘Rebuilt Merchant Navy’ class 4-6-2 No. 35025 ‘Brocklebank Line’ at Exeter Central Station, Devon on Wed. 26th Dec. 1962, with the up ‘Atlantic Coast Express’ for Waterloo. Built at Eastleigh in November 1948. Withdrawn in September 1964 and preserved.

It was a very bad winter in the Far West over the Christmas and beyond in 1962 with heavy snow unusually hitting us.


Photo: Steve Healey - SA Collection.