List of SR Merchant Navy class locomotives

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English The SR Merchant Navy class is a type of steam locomotive, designed by Oliver Bulleid, that ran on the British Southern Railway network. All were built at the Southern Railway's Eastleigh Works. The following table sets out the names, numbers and other vital statistics of the locomotives that comprised the class. The 'Merchant Navies' represented a publicity success for the Southern Railway in highlighting the names of Merchant Navy shipping lines that used Southampton Docks, which were served by the Southern Railway. They also constituted a roving memorial to the seamen who fought at sea during the Second World War to keep Britain supplied with food, fuel and other goods.

The shipping lines below are linked to their current or last owners, and take into account the many mergers that occur in the Merchant Marine industry, for example, General Steam Navigation merged with P & O in 1920, and finally disappeared as a separate entity in 1972.

List of SR/BR Merchant Navy class locomotives
BR No. SR No. Name[1] Built Rebuilt[2] Withdrawn Preserved/location Preservation Status Image Notes
35001 21C1 Channel Packet Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Waterloo Station with the pioneer Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' Pacific on Down express geograph-2620865-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg Entered SR service June 1941. Scrapped at Birds (Swansea) Ltd. 1965
35002 21C2 Union Castle Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Merchant Navy loco 35002 at Oxford – 1963 - geograph.org.uk - 6473744.jpg Scrapped at Slag Reduction Co. Ltd., Yorkshire 1964
35003 21C3 Royal Mail Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:35003 Derby Shed.jpg Holder of class speed record (105.88 mph). Last authenticated 100 mph plus on British Railways by a steam locomotive.[3] Scrapped at J Cashmore, Newport 1967
35004 21C4 Cunard White Star Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:35004 Cunard White Star(8215305332).jpg Scrapped at Cohen's/Eastleigh Shed 1966
35005 21C5 Canadian Pacific Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Mid-Hants Railway Restored on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough and used on main line steam specials. Painted in British Railways Blue livery between 2000 and 2001. Now based at the Mid-Hants Railway. In 2025 completed overhaul at Eastleigh Locomotive Works.[4] File:Merchant Navy Class 35005 "Canadian Pacific" outside Ropley loco shed - geograph.org.uk - 1516044.jpg
35006 21C6 Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co. Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway Operational. File:Steam locomotive, Broadway railway station - geograph.org.uk - 5886769.jpg
35007 21C7 Aberdeen Commonwealth Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Scrapped at J. Buttigieg, Newport 1968
35008 21C8 Orient Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Basingstoke station with express geograph-2962733-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg Scrapped at J. Buttigieg, Newport 1968
35009 21C9 Shaw Savill Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Private Site, Bury Stored awaiting restoration. File:Woodhams Yard Barry 5 (1362232462).jpg
35010 21C10 Blue Star Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Colne Valley Railway Stored File:35010 Blue Star at Colne Valley Railway 2.jpg
35011 21C11 General Steam Navigation Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Swindon and Cricklade Railway Under long-term restoration to as-built condition. File:SR Merchant Navy 35011 "General Steam Navigation".jpg
35012 21C12 United States Lines Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:'Atlantic Coast Express' at Vauxhall, 1948 - geograph.org.uk - 4814576.jpg Scrapped at J Cashmore, Newport 1967
35013 21C13 Blue Funnel Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:35013 Blue Funnel at Berrylands station.jpg Originally named Blue Funnel Line, renamed Blue Funnel Certum Pete Finem on 21 June 1945.[5] Scrapped at J. Buttigieg, Newport 1968
35014 21C14 Nederland Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:35014 waiting for the off, Waterloo 1967 - geograph.org.uk - 2722486.jpg Scrapped at J Cashmore, Newport 1967
35015 21C15 Rotterdam Lloyd Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Clapham Junction Atlantic Coast Express geograph-2962800-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg Scrapped at Slag Reduction Co. Ltd., Yorkshire 1964
35016 21C16 Elders Fyffes Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Tisbury Down Atlantic Coast Express geograph-2641827-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg Scrapped at Birds (Swansea) Ltd. 1965
35017 21C17 Belgian Marine Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:1948 Locomotive Exchanges, Southern Railway Pacific at Kilburn High Road on the Royal Scot out of Euston for Glasgow - geograph.org.uk - 4817480.jpg Scrapped at J. Buttigieg, Newport 1966
35018 21C18 British India Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts WCRC Carnforth Operational, main-line certified File:Non-Stop.jpg Originally built with fabricated wheels that were replaced with conventional cast wheels in 1947[6] First of the 'Merchant Navies' to be rebuilt.
35019 21C19 French Line CGT Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Shunting at Eastleigh - geograph.org.uk - 5448940.jpg The only member of the class to have script lettering on the nameplate, as used by French Line. Scrapped at J Cashmore, Newport 1966
35020 21C20 Bibby Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:35020 Bibby Line at Weymouth 1963.jpg Scrapped at BR/Eastleigh Works 1965
35021 - New Zealand Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:35021 New Zealand Line at Surbiton.jpg Scrapped at Birds (Swansea) Ltd. 1965
35022 - Holland America Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Private Site, Bury Boiler overhauled for eventual use by 35027, awaiting restoration to mainline standards File:SR Merchant Navy Class 35022 Holland America Line.jpg
35023 - Holland-Afrika Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:SR Merchant Navy class 35023 at Salisbury (1966) 01.JPG Scrapped at J. Buttigieg, Newport 1968
35024 - East Asiatic Company Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Hook with down 'Bournemouth Belle' geograph-2668792-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg Scrapped at C. Woodfield and Sons, Newport 1965
35025 - Brocklebank Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Private site at Sellindge, Kent Stored, pending long-term restoration
File:BR(SR) Jarvis rebuild of SR Bulleid "Merchant Navy" (or "MN") Class 4-6-2 No.35025.jpg
35026 - Lamport & Holt Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Scrapped at J Cashmore, Newport 1967
35027 - Port Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Private Site, Bury Under overhaul. (see 35027 Port Line) Being restored to mainline standards, based at Southall File:Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific 35027 Port Line portrait.jpg
35028 - Clan Line Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts Stewarts Lane, London Operational, main-line certified File:35028 Clan Line approaching Hatton station 10-07-2019 (48330776502).jpg
35029 - Ellerman Lines Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts National Railway Museum Sectioned Exhibit File:National Railway Museum - I - 15393190965.jpg
35030 - Elder Dempster Lines Template:Dts Template:Dts Template:Dts File:Clapham Factory Junction boat express geograph-2966198-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg Scrapped at J. Buttigieg, Newport 1968

See also

Footnotes

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External links

Preserved locomotives
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