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An ordinary day… that turned out to be an historic occasion. Gloucestershire Warwicks

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    2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the construction of 9F class 2-10-0 no. 92220 Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built for British Railways. At the time, Honeybourne Line locomotive department volunteer, Geoff White, was a fireman at Old Oak Common in London. It fell to him to fire Evening Star on its first revenue-earning journey from Swindon to London.

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