Southern Steam - the early days of the Bulleid Pacifics

Scenes from the early life of the Bulleid pacifics.
Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 No.21C1 'Channel Packet' under construction at Eastleigh in 1941.
Views of Bulleid's chain driven motion being tested.
Channel Packet's naming ceremony in 1941.
Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 No.21C19 'French Line C.G.T.', with the later arrangement of smoke deflectors, being prepared for duty at Nine Elms, revering into Waterloo and departing with the 3:30 for Bournemouth.
Scenes at Waterloo featuring the hydraulic buffer stops and No.21C12 'United States Lines' departing with a West Country express.
A short clip of No.21C16 'Elders Fyffes' at speed.
Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 No.21C149 Anti-Aircraft Command in colour in 1947.
Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2 No.35017 'Belgian Marine' during the British Railways Locomotive Exchange trials at Euston and hauling the 'Royal Scot' up Camden Bank in 1948, with a Stanier water-scoop tender and the LMS dynamometer car in tow.

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• bulleid
• 4-6-2
• pacific
• southern railway
• british railways
• steam
• british
• rail
• railways
• southern
• easleigh
• locomotive exchanges
• locomotive
• exchanges
• trials
• euston
• waterloo
• camden

[NewController01]

why does the end clip play twice?

[SouthernRailwayFilms]

@NewController01 Because I suck at editing in VirtualDub and appended an AVI segment twice would be my first guess...

[volvot5se]

Was that last seen Euston during loco exchanges when the Scot the Middlesex Regiment comes into view

[SouthernRailwayFilms]

@volvot5se Euston first, then Camden Bank for the Scot. Locomotive Trials 1948.

[3NUNS]

as a side note it is intersting to see how railway passengers of not so long ago knew how to mage railway carriage doors ... automatic closing doors and an over-emphasis on safety have displaced the Church of England as a national religion ...

[SouthernRailwayFilms]

No argument from this quarter. As a frequent class 375 passenger I spend a considerable amount of time standing in the vestibules wondering how many extra seats would fit in if they'd had proper doors and normal coach sides - those things like battleships! Nothing is without risk; the common sense balance between utility and safety has been lost.

[colliecandle]

"And what are you getting this Christmas ?"

"Well, I think it's going to be a pair of bulleid 'spam cans' !"

"Oh NO - Not slippers again !"

[Mounhas]

Great video, odd to think at the beginning the UK was 2 years into WW2 and I guess Waterloo/NineElms were targets. Very informative notes as well, tks.

[Axbent]

@MICKTHEMERC Agree, cool film! Love Bulleid's

[MICKTHEMERC]

Cracking piece of film, thanks for posting, Mick.

[spiccybaby]

Around 6:08, that looks like damage aroud the ashpan area on 21c12.

[SteffanLlwyd]

@3NUNS As my daughter says 'Britain... a bit rubbish but we like it'