Date: 11/08/2011

MUSIC mogul and railway enthusiast Pete Waterman is giving Didcot Railway Centre a unique present to mark its 50th birthday next month. Mr Waterman, who launched the careers of such stars as Kylie Minogue with hits like The Locomotion, is making the centre the custodian of a pioneering gas turbine locomotive ordered by the Great Western Railway in 1946, which he saved from the scrapyard. [From Richard Buckby]

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Music mogul presents engine to rail centre

Oxford Times

MUSIC mogul and railway enthusiast Pete Waterman is giving Didcot Railway Centre a unique present to mark its 50th birthday next month.

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