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The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 in Hunslet, Leeds, England. The company manufactured steam-powered shunting locomotives for over 100 years, and currently manufactures diesel-engined shunting locomotives.
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The Strathspey Railway (SR) in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland, operates a 10 miles (16 km) heritage railway from Aviemore to Broomhill, Highland via Boat of Garten, part of the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway which linked Aviemore with Forres. It is one of only a handful of primary/secondary main lines to be preserved in Britain today.
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The Highland Locomotive Company is a subsidiary of the Strathspey Railway Company. The Strathspey Railway Company operate and own most of the Strathspey Railway, a heritage railway based in the Central Scottish Highlands.
Dougal is a 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge T steam locomotive, built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. Ltd., Kilmarnock in 1946. It is currently running on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
Thornewill and Warham Ltd was a metal hardware and industrial metalwork manufacturer, later an engineering company, based in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. Under different names it traded from 1740 until 1929, becoming a notable producer of steam engines and railway locomotives. It also constructed two footbridges across the River Trent in Burton.
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- ↑ "Lady Victoria Colliery (Chapter 4)" (PDF), www.scottishminingmuseum.com, 9 Winding-Engine House, p.46; Figure 4.22, p.52, archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2013, retrieved 15 January 2012
- ↑ "Locomotive Check-List", www.ribblesteam.org.uk, Ribble Steam Railway, retrieved 17 February 2017