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Are any BR Standard parts hidden in your garage or garden?

A NATIONWIDE‘check your garages and storeooms’plea has been sounded by Toddington Standard Locomotive Limited (TSLL) – the owner and restorer of BR Standard 4 2-6-0 No. 76077 – which is searching for major components that ‘went missing’after the engine was withdrawn from BR service.

Engineering director Andrew Meredith, who is leading the restoration of the engine for eventual use on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, said:“When 76077 was withdrawn in 1967,

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