35018 British India Line

Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2

35018 British India Line was one of the first batch of twenty Southern Railway ‘Merchant Navy’ Class steam locomotives to be built by the Southern Railway in 1945. Completed at Eastleigh Works in May 1945, British India Line was first allocated to Nine Elms shed, where it was to remain for most of its career, under both the Southern Railway and British Railways. 

35018 was withdrawn from service in August 1964 and then eventually in 2012 it was moved to the former 10A steam shed at Carnforth, Lancashire where since then it has undergone a thorough restoration to working order and modern mainline standards by the West Coast Railway Company. The locomotive is currently out-shopped in BR Brunswick Green with the late BR crest.