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T3 award winners now plan to commence T9 overhaul

A ‘DREAM’ combination of LSWR T3 and T9 4-4-0 in regular service is the new aim of the award-winning 563 Locomotive Group at Swanage Railway Trust.

As reported last issue, the group, together with the Swanage Railway, carried off the Heritage Railway Association Chairman’s Special Award 2024 at the presentation evening at the Double Tree by Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton on February 10 for the restoration of William Adams T3 No. 563.

The T3 was

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