Railfest 2012 has arrived!!!! 2nd June 2012

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Flying Scotsman is on static display at Railfest 2012 - Britain's biggest ever gathering of rail record breakers, 2 - 10 June 2012. See speed legends Class 395, East Coast 91110, Tornado and many more, across a mind-blowing space the size of 11 football pitches. http://www.nrm.org.uk/railfest2012




List of expected exhibits.....

East Coast 91110 (1988-91)      31 built

Javelin (2009)    29 trainsets built

43159 HST (1975-82) 197 built

Mallard (A4)   1938       35 A4s built

Flying Scotsman A3 (1923) A1 52 built. 51 rebuilt, 27 new.

Hardwicke 1887-1901  LNWR Improved Precedent or “Jumbo” class.  166 built)

Tornado (LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado) 1994-2008

City of Truro(3440 City Of Truro 3700 or “City” class 4-4-0 ) Built 1903  (20 produced)

Duchess of Hamilton (1938) 38 Coronation Class built.

Gazelle (Built 1893)

Cheltenham  (1930-35) 40 Schools class built

Castle Donington Built 1954

Sir Nigel Gresley Built 1937  (of  35)

Mardy Monster   ( Peckett) 1951-4   3(Three built)

Teddy

Tyseley No L94  built between 1929 and 1950. 863 were built..

Webb No 1054 Coal Tank 1881-97. Sole survivor of 300 built.

Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Deltic) (1961-62)  22 built.

HST Prototype (1972) 1 of 2 built

Bahamas (1935) 191 built

Brighton Belle Brake Car No 88 (29 June 1934 till 30 April 1972.)

Courage/Sweet Pea

Spooner’s Boat

Furness Railway A5 No 20  (1863),oldest standard gauge working locomotive

George England “ Palmerston” (Built 1863) with No 15 and curly roof van

Weston Park Railway Peggy

Sylvia  B&W Engineering 4-wheel observation coach No. BW1000 "Sylvia" built in 2003

Class 37 D6700 (1960-65) 309 built

Beavertail Coach (1937) Doncaster built for the “Coronation” trains….

Middleton Railway Passenger Wagon - world's oldest continuously working railway founded in 1758

Hawk (A Kirklees Light Railway loco built in 1998 to a Kitson Meyer articulated design..)

Stepney (1872,1874-1880) 50 built

Oliver Cromwell (1951)  55 Britannia Class built

GWR No 5521 4575 Class 100 BUILT (1927-29)

Princess Elizabeth Princess Royal Class Thirteen  built (1933 and 1935) two are preserved

Olton Hall (1937) 258 TOTAL BUILT Plus 71 “Modified” = 329

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