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    GWR icon Pendennis Castle – meet Pendennis Castle!

    Apr 11, 2022 2 minutes
    By Robin Jones

    TWO locomotives which have little in common apart from their names came face-to-face at Didcot Railway Centre on Saturday, April 2 at the end of a return journey that lasted 22 years.

    A weekend of celebrations marked the official relaunch of repatriated iconic GWR 4-6-0 No. 4079 Pendennis Castle into traffic.

    Also invited for the occasion was Class 57 diesel.

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