35006 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co. is a Southern Railway rebuilt Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 steam locomotive. It was built at Eastleigh locomotive works in December 1941 and given the Southern Railway number 21C6. Although the first two members of the Merchant Navy class had their air-smoothed casings made of sheet steel, 21C6 was one of eight in which the casing was made of asbestos board, with a visible horizontal fixing strip along the centre line.
Restoration was a long drawn out affair. On 10 August 2015 35006 moved under its own power for the first time in under 50 years, albeit only with two of the three cylinders connected.[6] During April and May 2016 the loco undertook light engine and loaded test runs. The first public runs were during the GWSR's Cotswold Festival of steam gala at the end of May,[7] and the locomotive is now operational.
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The photo was taken at Toddington Station in the Cotswolds
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The customs area at the train station. They stopped using it a few years ago.
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Keighley and Worth Valley railway Autumn Gala 2011
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