THE Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s June 24-July 1 50th anniversary gala will welcome back two old stalwarts.
Bulleid West Country light Pacific No. 34092 City of Wells – for which its current home, the East Lancashire Railway has a £340,920 appeal to buy it from its three current owners, and LMS ‘Black Five’ No. 45212, based at Southall on duties for West Coast Railways, will return for the event.
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Already, Ivatt 2-6-2T No. 41241 has returned from overhaul, and repainted in the same non-authentic maroon livery that it carried when it pulled the line’s opening train on June 29, 1968. It will be officially relaunched into traffic on Sunday, June 24.#
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However, its partner on that day, USA 0-6-0T No. 30072, now owned by Andy Booth, will not be present because its overhaul at the Ribble Steam Railway is ongoing.
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