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END OF “CORONATION SCOT” LONDON, October 5. A famous railway engine, after completing more than a million miles, is to be scrapped. The “Coronation,” which began its 'working life 29 years ago at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, has been sent to a railway “graveyard” in the Midlands. Here it will perform one last service to its country by yielding 50 tons of scrap metal in the war effort, after the “break-up gang” have removed every part of it that can be used again. , “The life of an engine may be anything up to 50 years,” said a London 1 Midland and Scottish Railway official this week, “and we have - engines which have covered a million and a half miles. We doubt if the engines we' are building to-day will last as long as those we built 50 years ago,” added the official. “In those days they were built to last. To-day we would rather have a shorter life with maximumefficiency.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1940, Page 10
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