Duke of Gloucester - 71000
Railways • 59m
The very last Pacific locomotive to be built in Britain, Duke of Gloucester is literally a one-off locomotive. Constructed at Crewe Works in 1954, it was the last Pacific locomotive built for the nationalised British Railways. The sole standard Class 8P, the engine was the prototype of a three-cylinder development of Britannia.
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