QUOTE (On the edge @ Oct 25 2012, 10:51 PM)
At the risk of being lynched in GWR country - I think the Southern Bullied pacifics were the finest steam engines ever made. Innovative and imaginative design.
We agree OTE. Marvellous machines both spam cam and rebuild.
I remember going with my Dad to Worting Junction near Basingstoke and seeing them thundering past. What memories!
Never saw a spam can "Navy" though, I'm not that old!!
Clan Line is 65 years old and certainly not "clapped out"!