E86024 LBSCR 54ft 'Isle of Wight' 4-Coach Pack BR (SR) Green No. 486 option-set-016 GW Van VE Day Merchant

GW Van VE Day Merchant Navy 80th Anniversary

it worked the 50th anniversary train in 1954

with the fourth being something even more spectacular

lubricators and sand boxes along the running plate and separate pipework running from below the cab to the top feed on the boiler

which was a former branch line of the South Wales Mineral Railway

E86024 LBSCR 54ft 'Isle of Wight' 4-Coach Pack BR (SR) Green No. 486 option-set-016 GW Van VE Day MerchantThe Southern Railway (SR) took over operations of the railways on the Isle of Wight upon Grouping in 1923, inheriting an eclectic mix of locomotives and rolling stock. To replace many of these antiquated vehicles, ageing stock from the mainland was given a second life on the island and in the late 1930s, sixty former London Brighton & South Coast Railway (LBSCR) coaches arrived after having been rebuilt onto new 54ft chassis and fitted with