Railway Herald
25NC Class 4-8-4 No. 3405 ‘Janice’ is one of a hundred locomotives of this type, built by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow (1954), for export to South Africa. Apart from being the most powerful locomotives built in this country, they also innovative and technically advanced, carrying features such as electric lighting, self-cleaning smoke box, roller bearings and a mechanical stoker. ‘Janice’ regularly hauled the luxurious Blue Train across the velds until the late 1970s. Seen here at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre on 24th April 2010.
Kev Gregory
