Year: 2022

48431 LMS Class 8F 2-8-0
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48431 LMS Class 8F 2-8-0

An LMS engine from the GWR headquarters Prior to designing the WD (see 90733) the 8F was chosen as the standard heavy freight design for war work in WW2. 8Fs were built by all the major railway companies with no. 8431 being built by the Great Western Railway at Swindon in 1944. Although an LMS…

80002 BR Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4T
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80002 BR Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4T

A Scottish survivor The tank version of the British Railways Standard Class 4 (see 75078), 80002 is another engine that escaped the cutters torch by the skin of its teeth, purchased directly from British Railways in 1969. 17 years with British Railways, 3 times longer with the KWVR Completed in 1952, 80002 worked its entire…

43924 Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0
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43924 Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0

A locomotive with a place in preservation history After a working life of 45 years, 43924 was consigned to the scrapyard of Woodham Bros. in Barry, South Wales. It secured its place in preservation folklore in 1970, becoming the very first of over 200 locomotives to leave the scrapyard for a life in preservation when…

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