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Now firmly established as a leading specialist in the maintenance, overhaul and servicing of locomotives and other items of rolling stock for a number of operators, it is sometimes easy to forget that

The late 1830s and the 1840s was a period of intensive railway building, with the network expanding rapidly throughout the country, and a growing ambition was to create a through route from London to

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