35005 Canadian Pacific – Story of the Oldest Surviving Bulleid Pacific

35005 Canadian Pacific
The story of this remarkable surviving member of the wartime-built Merchant Navy
Class. No. 35005 Canadian Pacific was constructed at nearby Eastleigh Railway Works during
the middle of hostilities in World War Two. No. 35005 emerged from the Works in late
December 1941 looking very different from today as it was in O V S Bulleids original
design with flat side boiler casing and all the valve gear from its three cylinders contained
within an oil bath between the frames.
During the mid 1950s it was decided to rebuild the whole class with a more traditional
look and outside valve gear and many other improvements. Canadian Pacific would receive
that rebuild in mid 1959. With the demise of steam on the Southern
Region beckoning, the locomotive was withdrawn from service just six years later from its
final depot at Weymouth in 1965. Luckily for this and nine other members of the
merchants, they would end up at Barry in South Wales and a scrapyard that held onto
most of its rows of engines. The engine was bought and moved to Lancashire in 1973
and then re-sold privately for restoration at the Great Central Railway.
A term of operating at the GCR and then on the main line in blue livery followed
until it was moved to the Mid-Hants Railway for more main line work.
In 2006 the locomotive was sold to the MHR and withdrawn for overhaul two years later.
In 2025 Canadian Pacific was re-launched following an extensive
overhaul costing over £1.2m involving heritage lottery and some
match funding. This programme looks at the early life in preservation
of 35005 and the latest overhaul in detail with exclusive footage of the boiler overhaul and re-introduction to service.
Approximately 50 minutes duration