Plot: Way back in the 1960s, when steam was on the way out, a group of kids decided they simply weren’t prepared to let the Merchant Navy class die – so they bought one straight out of BR ownership! The Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific 35028 “Clan Line” wasn’t their first choice, but has since proved a brilliant flagship of the surviving Southerns. With the support of the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society, we see the engine being prepared at Stewarts Lane for a day out in the Garden of England, wearing the Golden Arrow headboard