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wasn't designed for extended high speed express work. BR management's embargo, issued after they received word of the runs on 27–28 June, wasn't enforced until after driver Eddie Broom, head of Canton Shed's Local
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Swindon to see the job through. I am sure it has been truly said that no other product of man’s mind has ever exercised such a compelling hold upon the public’s imagination as the steam locomotive. No other machine, in its day, has been a more faithful friend to mankind and has contributed more to the cause of industrial prosperity in this, the land of its birth, and throughout the world.
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passenger express locomotives, which it was observed overtaking (while hauling a full rake of 10+ passenger express coaches) on several occasions. However, its career on these flagship services was cut short, by order of BR senior management, allegedly from fear of damage to its running gear which
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Swindon, and, to my friends from other Regions and from the B.T.C., I trust I shall not be considered parochial when I say that it is a proud day for Great Western men everywhere who will find much satisfaction, since there had to be a "last one" that it should
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was chosen following a competition run in 1959-60 by the BR Western Region Staff
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had already completed engines with higher numbers. It was equipped with a BR1G-type tender and given BR Locomotive Green livery, normally reserved for passenger locomotives, and was completed with a
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86 long tons 14 cwt (194,200 lb or 88.1 t)
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Barnwood shed yard, and on 8 September 1962 it hauled the last
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20 in × 28 in (508 mm × 711 mm)
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125 Years of the
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The South Wales Main Line, Part 2 Severn Tunnel to
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874:(271), Institute of Mechanical Engineers: 597–599, 1959,
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866:"The last steam locomotive built by British railways",
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Preserved British Railways Standard steam locomotives
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Preserved British steam locomotive completed in 1960
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741:List of preserved BR Standard Class 9F locomotives
1313:Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
1237:Reed, P.J.T. (February 1953). White, D.E. (ed.).
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1019:The Last Days Of Steam In Gloucestershire
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969:The South Wales Main Line, Part 1 Cardiff
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894:The South Wales Main Line, Part 1 Cardiff
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919:THE RED DRAGON ...and other old friends
588:Severn Tunnel Junction Marshalling Yard
1308:Railway locomotives introduced in 1960
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1207:The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways
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1262:Volume Four: The 9F 2-10-0 Class
1216:Part 8: Modern Passenger Classes
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635:National Railway Museum
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1188:Book of the 9F 2-10-0s
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1173:10 May 2016
730:in May 2016
706:Crewe Works
482:Keith Grand
372:Crewe Works
288:Power class
190:Tender type
182:Loco weight
1287:Categories
757:References
696:4000 Class
600:Shrewsbury
580:Red Dragon
566:Gloucester
547:Red Dragon
526:Paddington
492:In service
449:stands at
420:March 1960
317:March 1965
206:Water cap.
84:March 1960
81:Build date
53:Power type
1056:1744-845X
668:Lode Star
666:No. 4003
558:Britannia
389:The name
314:Withdrawn
278:Operators
223:Cylinders
1164:Archived
747:WG Class
735:See also
716:after a
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798:, p.652
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618:to the
574:on the
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382:Naming
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342:92220
304:Locale
273:Career
174:Length
130:1′E h2
118:2-10-0
299:92220
136:Gauge
113:Whyte
56:Steam
1270:ISBN
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1247:ISBN
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1192:ISBN
1089:2010
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