Date: 25/02/2014

A HISTORIC locomotive which was on display in Shildon as part of Mallard’s anniversary celebrations has steamed back to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Steam engine Sir Nigel Gresley left Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon on February 25. The engine is the latest of the six remaining A4 class locomotives to leave Shildon where they have been on show during the nine-day long The Great Goodbye.

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Sir Nigel Gresley steams back to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from Locomotion

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A HISTORIC locomotive which was on display in Shildon as part of Mallards anniversary celebrations has steamed back to the North Yorkshire Moors

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