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Re: 150 years of rail in Aust. - Flying Scotsman



Derick Wuen <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in message
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> In the UK the 150 anniversary of S&D and later L&M spawned a number of
> replicas of locos, and the Rocket replica even visited Australia. In the
US
> they pulled the C&A planet John Bull out of the Smithsonian and steamed
it.

The National Railway Museum in York (England) has two Rocket replicas... or
is one just a full scale model? One's in the exhibition hall, and the
other's out in the yard. (I wonder what happened to the original?)


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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