🚂 CLAN LINE SET FOR SERVICE AT YEOVIL 🚂 After exiting the historic turntable, 35028 Clan Line inches into position for a service at Yeovil Junction. The Merchant Navy Class locomotive had hauled The Sherborne Christmas Carol special from London Victoria and was preparing for the return journey. Clan Line was built at Eastleigh Works and completed in 1948. It was based at Bournemouth, Dover and London, hauling heavy trains to and from English Channel ports and prestige expresses like the Golden

Merchant Navy Class 35028 “Clan Line” hammers through Goring & Streatley as she heads the Railway Touring Company’s Railtour to Worcester Shrub Hill | Southern Steam Lad Photography

'Retracing History' On the 27th April 1974 Merchant Navy No.35028 'Clan Line' would set out from Basingstoke to Westbury on its first mainline railtour, 50 years later Clan Line once again set out to celebrate its mainline career. The tour organised by UK Railtours would see No.35028 haul the British Pullman train from London Victoria to Bath and return. This tour would retrace the first railtour over the route from Basingstoke to Westbury, via Salisbury and we see in this short video the locomo