16th December 2000
The usual phalanx of photographers were prowling Chester station on the lookout
for the first wisp of steam from the east. Former Strathclyde PTE 101 693
was resting in bay platform 5.
A rearrangement of the units afforded me this study of front ends from the
fifties, eighties and 2000.
It was coming up to 13:00 when 35005 Canadian Pacific steamed
in. This is an example of Oliver Bulleid's Merchant Navy class, introduced
in 1941 to operate the Southern Railway's crack expresses but currently bearing
the very early British Railways express blue.
35005 allows its passengers to alight at platform 3