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'Clan' Hengist frames being constructed in Sheffield

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THE Standard Steam Locomotive Company (SSLC) has broken with tradition and employed a modern, non-railway engineering company to assemble the frames of its new-build BR ‘Clan’ Pacific No. 72010 Hengist.

Other new-build schemes have

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