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Hagley Hall set to return by the end of the year

MONDAY, December 7 was a landmark in the return to steam of GWR 4-6-0 No. 4930 Hagley Hall , once the Severn Valley Railway’s flagship locomotive but which has not steamed since October 1986.

The passing of its boiler’s out-of-frames steam test took place at Northern Steam Engineering (NSE) which previously built a new tender tank

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