Picture of the Week: 33005 Reading South depot
Alan Ledger
April 21, 2014
Some of you may never have seen one of these but at least one would be standing around on Reading South Southern shed when paying a visit along with Maunsell U 2-6-0’s and even a School 4-4-0 if you were lucky. It’s a Bullied Q1 0-6-0 33005. They were never clean except when in ex works condition. Forty were built during the second world war and were the most powerful 0-6-0’s in Britain. Nothing elegant about them but always unmistakable
