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Friday 24th April 1998 finds 5 tons of locomotive blocking the A595 in Cumbria.
She was on her way to a steam gale at the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway and some time later, I wrote an article for Grand Scale Quarterly magazine detailing 24's ordeal and triumphant appearance at the Gala. Click here to read the full account.
A second article detailing the subsequent rebuild, appeared in issue #11 (April 2000) of Grand Scale Quarterly magazine Click here to read it now.
© Roger Loxley 2001.