The durability of British engineering workmanship is illustrated by the announcement that express engine No. I, built for the old Great Northern Railway, has again taken the rails, and has travelled under its own steam from Doncaster to York, where it is to occupy a permanent home in the London and North-Eastern Railway Museum, No. 1 is one of the very few locomotives with a record of more than 1,000.000 miles. It was built in 1809 and was in active service until just before the war.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3360, 15 August 1927, Page 8
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