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davidgwr	19 Sep 2008, 03:47 PM
Guard Posts: 124 Group: Member Member #725 Joined: May 7, 2008	I was thinking that although it is claimed that River Irt is the oldest miniature loco operating. I wonder how much of the original 1894 loco is left now, as she has been major rebuilt twice (with hindsight I wish that the Heywood locos and the scale model locos that ran at Ravenglass had been preserved, but I suspose in the 1920s people didn't think about the historical aspects). Incidentally what was the reasoon behind the Irt's 1970s rebuild. Similarly how original are River Esk, the original Romney locos and Count Louis as they have been overhauled several times (and The Bug was restored from a rotting hulk). Indeed I once read that Talyllyn and Dolgoch on the TR and Prince on the FR are actually replicas of the 1860s locos as so muich has been replaced. The same could be said about the standard gauge locos that have been rescued frolm Barry and then rebuilt - very few of the original remains.


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