THE GENERAL Steam Navigation Locomotive Restoration Society is to move its namesake locomotive 35011 from a private site at Sellindge, Kent, to the Swindon & Cricklade Railway. The part-restored Merchant Navy loco is unique in that it is being converted back to air-smoother form, with original oil-bath chain-driven valve gear. All Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2s were rebuilt to conventional form in the 1950s, although some of the smaller West Country/Battle of Britain Class were not.
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