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Meteor conversion aims to make '08' a star

A veteran locomotive with a new life ahead… 08649.

Over the years, the need for shunting locomotives declined dramatically.

As late as 1980, BR still had nearly 1,000 of the small, reliable, but woefully underused diesel locomotives.




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