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Head starts for gala planners as starring line-ups emerge

NEWS

ENTHUSIASTS will already be making plans to visit their galas of choice in 2024.

Keen to ensure that these events attract as many as possible, some guest locomotives have already been announced.

Kicking off the year with its winter gala on January 26-28, the Great Central Railway will welcome Peter Best's USATC 2-8-0 S160 No. 2253 , the Baldwin Locomotive works-built locomotive having appeared at the Severn Valley Railway'sown winter event a few weeks beforehand, where it has been since autumn. will star alongside

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