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    TIME TRAVELLER

    Jan 15, 2019 3 minutes
    Network Rail

    50 YEARS AGO...

    FEBRUARY 1969

    With the merging of English Electric and Associated Electrical Industries to become English Electric-AEI Traction, the firm announced that no more main line locomotives would be built at Vulcan Works in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. Established in 1832, Vulcan Foundry built locomotives from 1833 and in the modern traction era these included examples from Classes 20, 37, 40, 50, 55 and 86. The joint company still planned to build locos, just not

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