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

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Daniel Bowen wrote in message ...
>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?)
>
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>Daniel
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>Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
>dbowen @ custard dot net dot au
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"The remains" of the original Rocket is in the Science Museum in London.
Amazing that so much of it survived from 1829.