Swanage Railway Company chairman Peter Sills called it "the greatest preserved Southern Railway steam locomotive".

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Tony Lyster, chairman of trustees for Buckinghamshire Railway Centre which owns the locomotive, reminisced afterwards.

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He phoned Spoornet, the main state railway of South Africa, to rent a locomotive.

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General Maczek again achieved victory, two years ago, when Steam Center director Jason Van Landschoot sped past a locomotive of Wallonia's Three Valleys Railway in a race.

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The charity also hopes to restore a steam locomotive named Elizabeth that used to operate on the railway.

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In August 2011, Roddis disguised himself as a railway worker and stole small explosives, known as fog signals, from a locomotive in a goods yard in Doncaster, it is alleged.

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The class A3 Pacific locomotive, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster.

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While sales of its Hornby model railway sets were broadly similar to the previous year, its new Brighton Belle five car set and Flying Scotsman locomotive had seen "notable success" it said.

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