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With its rods down, unique British Railways Standard 8P Caprotti Pacific "Duke of Gloucester" makes a smother as it roars past Longueville Junction, Peterborough, with a Russ Hillier charter on 29th September 2011.

What a glorious sight this was when compared to the sad hulk rotting away in Barry Scrapyard back in March 1968 and what a triumph for the endeavours of preservationists (see adjacent picture).

 

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Russ Hillier charter

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Taken on September 29, 2011