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21C146 Braunton is a Southern Railway West Country class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive that has been preserved. It is presently based at Crewe Diesel TMD and operational on the mainline hauling excursion trains.
21C146 was built at Brighton Works in November 1946 in original streamlined form and upon completion was allocated to Exmouth Junction. Further allocations included Salisbury, Brighton and Bournemouth. In 1949 the engine was re-numbered to 34046 in the British Railways series. [1]
In 1959 the engine was rebuilt. [2] This included the removal of the air smoothed casing (which gave the engine a completely different shape) and the chain-driven valve gear was replaced with conventional Walschaerts valve gear. The engine was now allocated to Bournemouth from where it would have worked services between London Waterloo and Weymouth and over the Somerset & Dorset Line from Bath Green Park. Also in 1959, the engine hauled the Royal train to Portland. With steam on the Southern Region coming to an end, the engine was withdrawn from service in October 1965 and sold to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry Island. [3]
34046 was withdrawn from service in October 1965 and moved to the Woodham Brothers' scrapyard at Barry Island, this was to be the engine's home for the next 23 years until it was moved in 1988 to Brighton in a bid to be restored.
In 1996 it was purchased by the West Somerset Railway but later sold on to a private individual. The engine was moved to Williton on the WSR where a long-term restoration to running order was to be undertaken. During the engine's time at Barry Scrapyard a large number of parts had been taken from the engine for use on other projects so replacements were cast and fitted. 34046 returned to steam in July 2007 for the first time in the 42 years since its withdrawal from service. The engine's debut return to passenger service was in 2008 with plans to have the engine certified for use on the mainline hauling excursion trains. [4]
In 2018 it was based in Crewe and owned by Jeremy Hosking. 34046 is operational on the mainline hauling excursion trains. In 2016 the engine was disguised as scrapped classmate no 34052 Lord Dowding . [5]
On 15 May 2016 the engine hauled a private football special from Clapham Junction to Southampton for the fans of Crystal Palace F.C. [6]
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