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    RE-CREATING LMS 10000 THE NEXT STEPS

    Oct 05, 2020 5 minutes
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    WRITING about railway preservation during the past 30 years has shown anything is possible, and so far, not much is impossible.

    If you recall, critics said you couldn’t cast cylinders for the Duke of Gloucester, cast driving wheels for King Edward II or Galatea, rebuild 20 miles of Welsh railway closed in the 1930s and left to nature, or even build new steam locomotives from scratch. All have been done and more besides.

    However, every now and then, along comes a project which piques one’s interest for many reasons, and the mission by the Ivatt Diesel Recreation Society (IDRS) to re-create diesel loco No. 10000, built for the LMS in 1947, falls into that category.

    Prototypes

    No. 10000 was one of a pair of prototypes built at Derby, its 1,600hp English Electric powerhouse wrapped around a bodyshell, which leant strongly

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