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Visiting loco Thompson B1 No.1251 'Oliver Bury' approaches Swithland on the Post Office demonstration train. Autumn Steam Gala, Great Central Railway 07 10 2018

The B1 Locomotive is visiting from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and is actually No.1264. The loco is running in the guise of No.1251, which took part in the 1948 Exchange Steam Trials and is in LNER wartime livery.

 

The Trials are the theme of this gala,with at least one locomotive from each of the big four pre nationalisation railway companies participating.

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