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Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Tank Locomotive 1008

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $5.95

Stock #:1133767
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Publisher: J. Arthur Dixon, Ltd.
Size: 4" x 5.75" (10.25 x 15 cm)
Publisher's Series #: PTS/92899/GMS

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Designed by John Aspinall and built at Horwich Works in 1889, this locomotive, No. 1008, was the first of its kind. It operated on busy branch lines in the hilly Pennines, featuring radial axle-boxes and water pick-up gear for working in either direction. It is preserved at the National Railway Museum, York.

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