Beamish Museum is to bring home one of Britain's most celebrated ex-patriot locomotives. Sharp Stewart 0-4-4T Dunrobin and four-wheel private saloon No. 58A have not been seen in the UK since being exported to Canada in 1965. The loco was built in 1895 to pull the Duke of Sutherland's private train at Dunrobin Castle and performed that function until around 1920, being kept in a private shed alongside the Highland main line. A similar design was subsequently perpetuated by engineer Peter Drummond on his Highland Railway W class 0-4-4Ts, which have been described as'near clones' of Dunrobin. The saloon was built at Inverness and dates from 1908.
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