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    Green light for West Somerset to run ‘heavy’ locomotive

    Mar 15, 2022 2 minutes
    By Robin Jones

    THE West Somerset Railway has been given a major boost ahead of its March 19 reopening after plc chairman Jonathan Jones-Pratt’s WR 0-6-0PT No.9466 was passed for running on the line.

    It has previously been considered that No.9466 was too heavy for the axle-loading limit on the line, sections

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