On 23rd July 1966, No. 35027 ''Port Line'' is seen speeding non-stop through Basingstoke on a Waterloo to Bournemouth express. Entering service in December 1948, the engine was rebuilt in May 1957. Withdrawn in September 1966 and sold by BR to Woodham Brothers, Barry, South Wales, it was rescued from the Welsh island for preservation in 1982. © David Glasspool Collection
The tender is packed to the gunwales with coal as No. 35027 simmers in the platforms of Waterloo in September 1966, immediately before withdrawal. In the background, on the right, can be seen a Brush ''Type 3'' diesel (latterly Class 33) still wearing all-over green with white stripe, but lacking a yellow warning panel. © David Glasspool Collection
The final member of the class, No. 35030, is seen at Waterloo on 3rd September 1966, fronting ''The Great Central Rail Tour''. The engine hauled the train to Nottingham Victoria by means of the Great Central line via Rugby, Leicester, and Loughborough. No. 35030 emerged from Eastleigh Works in April 1949 in Malachite Green livery, wearing this for little more than a year before being repainted into BR Experimental Blue, in May 1950. Taking on the more familiar BR Lined Green guise exactly three years later, the engine was rebuilt from its original form in April 1958. It remained in service right until the end of steam on the South Western Division main line, in July 1967. In November of the following year, it was scrapped in Newport, South Wales. © David Glasspool Collection
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