







Pete Waterman Unveils Merchant Navy Loco Nameplate



Pop! Goes The Whistle





past and a bygone era . Nearly 500 people recently attended the unveiling of the former Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class Pacific locomotive, 35006 'Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co', at Toddington, on May 20th 2016; home of the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway following an immense years-long overhaul providing a glimpse of times

John McMillan, P&O Locomotive Society chairman, opened the day's proceedings and GWSR's president, celebrity and record producer,

, unveiled the locomotive's nameplate.





One of 30 engines of the class to built, all named after shipping lines that used Southampton Docks, Class 35006 locomotive was salvaged from Dai Woodham's scrapyard in Wales, where she had stood rusting away since her withdrawal in the 1960's, and brought to the GWSR - then in its infancy - in 1983.









35006 in Dai Woodham's scrapyard









David Brown, a locomotive fireman in the 1960's based at Yeovil, worked P&O's final journey on a mail train from Yeovil to Eastleigh, then returned it to its home depot of Salisbury.





The locomotive will make its public debut at the Cotswold Festival of Steam at the GWSR from 28th to 30th May.



