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    Clan Line hauls Royal Train and Pacific’s 70th birthday marked

    Jan 15, 2019 2 minutes
    By Don Benn
    MIKE TURNER/MNLPS
    JOHN BIRD

    DECEMBER was an unexpectedly special month for Clan Line – for it hauled the Royal Train, in addition to the owning group, the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society (MNLPS) celebrating the locomotive’s 70th birthday of its release into traffic on December 23, 1948.

    During November, the society to haul the Royal Train, with Prince Charles on board, from Newport to Cardiff Central on December 7. This was to tie in with official engagements in the Welsh capital and involved a diesel-hauled light engine move on the previous day for overnight stabling in the area. then coupled up to the Royal Train for the short journey to Cardiff.

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