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    WITH FULL REGULATOR LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE THEN AND NOW

    Jun 04, 2019 6 minutes
    BARRY MARTIN

    IN ISSUE 252 I reported on the performance of rebuilt Merchant Navy Class Pacific No. 35018 British India Line double-heading with B1 class 4-6-0 No. 61306 Mayflower on the northbound ‘Cumbrian Mountain Express’ (CME) when the two locomotives turned in an even time run from Carnforth to Carlisle.

    Being a Southern devotee at heart, I was determined to enjoy a run behind this recently-restored-to-traffic Bulleid and so I booked on the 'CME' on Saturday, February 23, for which No. 35018 was the booked engine, but as has been reported, it failed at Carnforth on the day of the trip with injector problems.

    I have had to rely on good correspondents Alan Rawlings and Sandy Smeaton for details of its performance on the 'CME' on March 2 and on Railway Touring Company’s ‘Great Britain XII’ (GBXII) tour (see separate story on Main Line News page 56). First however, some recollections from the 1960s.

    British India Line in the 1960s

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