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    ‘New-build’ Victorian veterans in the limelight on the model stage

    Jun 04, 2019 2 minutes
    By Geoff Courtney
    WA CAMWELL/TR COLLECTION
    BEN BROOKSBANK/CREATIVE COMMONS

    TWO preserved Victorian steam locomotives that jointly total 287 years of age – including a 4-4-2T which famously survived against the odds and saw service with BR until the 1960s – are to take centre stage in this year’s build programme of leading British large scale model-maker Accucraft UK.

    They are LSWR radial tank No., one of the world’s oldest operational locomotives whose overhaul costs in 2021 will be boosted by sales of the upcoming model.

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