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    On a plate: preserved steam loco error corrected

    Aug 20, 2018 2 minutes
    By Geoff Courtney
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    GERRY CORK

    A PRESERVED steam locomotive worksplate error that went undetected for decades has been corrected at a small ceremony during a rail gala at Amberley Museum in West Sussex on July 14-15.

    Former ironstone quarry 0-6-0ST had been carrying the wrong worksplate throughout its 35 years at Amberley and possibly before, but the error was spotted

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