While the majority of passenger traffic at Holborn Viaduct was via multiple units, but between 1935 until the finalisation of the Kent Coast electrification scheme and the end of steam a number of semi-fast passenger services to the coast operated. Due to the axle-loading limitations of Holborn Viaduct (not least that the services with the antithesis of prestigious!) the locomotives used on these services and the pure parcels/newspaper traffic were previously top-link SE&CR passenger locos o
