Tomorrow (Sunday) will see what is planned to be the first run into Cornwall of a former Southern Railway class of steam express locomotive.

Merchant Navy Class Pacific locomotive No 35028 ‘Clan Line’ was actually built in 1948, the first year of the nationalised British Railways (later British Rail), but she was built to an earlier Southern Railway design.

This Sunday’s run, named The Cornishman, will be from Bristol to Par using the carriages usually used on the summer Torbay Express runs from Bristol to Kingswear for Dartmouth.

The train is due to call at Plymouth at 11.30am before making a Merchant Navy locomotive’s first crossing of Saltash’s Royal Albert Bridge to enter Cornwall.

The steam express is then due to stop at Liskeard at 12.20pm to set down passengers wanting an afternoon in Looe; at Bodmin Parkway at 12.40pm for those wanting to ride on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway or visit Lanhydrock; and then to terminate at Par at 12.55pm for passengers to visit Fowey or Charlestown by coach.

Clan Line’s return run is scheduled to leave Par at around 5.30pm, calling at Bodmin Parkway at 5.45pm and Liskeard at 6.05pm and then to depart Plymouth for the rest of its journey north at 7.05pm.

For further details or amendments to timings see the website www.pathfindertours.co.uk