Clan Line

I've always thought the rebuilt Bulleids marginally more attractive than the air smoothed versions and as a baby, a toddler and a schoolboy (not a 'student') who was born and lived not so very far from the Chatham mainline it's more than likely that I saw a few before steam locomotive traction was discontinued on the Southern Region of BR. There were no locomotives anywhere in the world as elegant as English locomotives, nor as powerful for a given output per ton against the load hauled.