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Old 26th July 2020, 15:13
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Following on from this, using the BR Locomotive Database to search by class (for West Country/Battle of Britain) and selecting allocations, it gives a list of all the allocations (since 1948 under BR) for all members of the class: http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.p...e=S&page=alloc
Taking a couple of now-preserved locos as examples, you can see that 34027 'Taw Valley' had spells at Bricklayers Arms, Ramsgate & Bricklayers Arms again until moving to the Central Division at Brighton (75A) on 26/5/61, while 34070 'Manston' was at Ramsgate, Dover and Ashford (73F) before moving to the Western Division at Exmouth Junction on 9/11/61.

As for the Merchant Navy pacifics, they were almost exclusively used on the Western Division, apart from a relatively short period in the 1950s when a few were allocated to the South Eastern Division, principally to work the London-Dover/Folkestone Boat trains including the 'Golden Arrow', but the Light Pacifics and BR Standard 'Britannia's were more commonly used for these trains.
From BR Locomotive Database - http://brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?a...e=S&page=alloc - only the following were allocated to Stewarts Lane (73A) on the South Eastern Division:
35001 'Channel Packet' (25/1/57-14/6/59)
35014 'Nederland Line' (21/6/55-15/6/56)
35015 'Rotterdam Lloyd' (15/6/56-14/6/59)

Tony
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