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LINES PREPARE FOR 150 YEARS OF TERRIERS

A group of railways and the Terrier Trust are working on a programme of events later in the year to celebrate 150 years since the first LB&SCR ‘A1’ 0-6-0T Terrier was built.

Fifty Terriers were built between 1872 and 1880 and, amazingly, no less than ten examples have been preserved. All of them (preserved as early as 1927), the Bluebell’s and the Isle of Wight Railway’s E1 .

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