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Alan Keef "Flower Train" on flickr

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  1. Tu2

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    Hello,

    An overgrown Alan Keef loco,
    Anyone knows details about it?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/cymro76/8417235776/in/photostream/

    Philipp
     
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    I was there not so long ago and took the same photo and asked the same question :) apparently it is one of two locos supplied new for a line than ran around the zoo for a while. Closed some years back and the loco has been a floral feature since.
     
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    -info taken from Alan Keef's Autobiography-

    Its most likely Works No. AK.34. Built in 1991 0-4-0ph steam outline delivered to Singapore Zoo in 1991. Know as 'Red Choo Choo'.

    There was also another Keef loco AK35 which was a 4-4-0, also built 1991.

    -Rob
     
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