1744 details on steamloco.info

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1744 was built by the North British Locomotive Company, and was one of the many of the class fitted with condensing units for work in the London Underground. Based for most of her working life at Kings Cross her main duties were on suburban trains. Withdrawn in 1962 at New England depot, she was purchased for preservation, first at Doncaster and then at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, where several broken tubes caused her to be moved to Loughborough in 1975. Boiler ticket is due to expire in 2019, now her third since preservation.

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