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Press Release - 'Townsend Hook’ Makes It Five Out Of Five

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This means that all five of the surviving Fletcher, Jennings locomotives based in the UK will be present for the event, making it a once in a lifetime opportunity to see them all together for the first time.

A third Fletcher, Jennings locomotive, the standard gauge ‘Captain Baxter’, will be in steam at Tywyn Wharf on a specially laid section of track.

It is the first time all the surviving Fletcher, Jennings locomotives in the UK have been brought together; the first time all of the steamable Fletcher, Jennings locomotives in the world have been in action together; the first time that a standard gauge locomotive will have been in operation at Tywyn Wharf station, and the first time all the Dorking Greystone locomotives have been seen together since the quarry closed.

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