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    LANCASHIRE GLORY

    Jul 05, 2022 3 minutes

    The weekend of June 18/19 saw the East Lancashire Railway mark the centenary of the merging of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and the London North Western Railway companies with a gala that saw the sole-operating LNWR locomotive – Webb Coal Tank No. 1054 – return to service following completion of its most recent overhaul.

    On January 1, 1922, the LNWR and L&YR merged under the first railway modernisation plan, adopting the LNWR name and bringing together the world-class traffic

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