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New future in store for England’s oldest Peckett

Sittingbourne donates standard gauge steam locomotive to Quainton.

A STEAM loco which has spent more than half a century on static display in Kent is set to be returned to action in Buckinghamshire.

Following the decision by the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway (SKLR) to find a new home for Peckett W4 0-4-0ST (614/1896), on December 12 the loco was formally handed over to

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