The Cathedral's Express Steam Train which is an SR BB Class 4-6-2, class 34067, Tangmere, travelled from Victoria to Stratford and back to Victoria via Brentford and Chiswick, on Thursday 27 August.

Further details and some excellent photos can be found on the ChiswickW4.com discussion forum.

About 34067 Tangmere

Bulleid's masterful Battle of Britain class 34067 Tangmere, is a regular Cathedrals Express locomotive this year.

The prestigious Battle of Britain class locomotives were designed in 1945 by Oliver Bulleid for use across the entire Southern Railway from London to the Kent coast and as far west as Plymouth.

Named after the wartime RAF fighter station near Chichester, Tangmere was mainly used on trains between London and Kent until the 1960s. It then moved to Salisbury, where it spent the last few years of its active life heading trains between Exeter and London.

Many of the class were extensively rebuilt in the 1950s and lost their distinctive air-smoothed casing but Tangmere remains in its original form giving a glimpse of how impressive these machines would have looked in the difficult years after the Second World War.

For the timetable, please click here.

September 1, 2009