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This steam locomotive broke the record for the fastest steam locomotive in the world in 1938, being recorded at 126mph

Who is Mallard?

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This 149 year old engine appeared as the main character of the 18th book of the Railway Series by the Reverend W. Awdry in 1963

Who is Stepney the Bluebell Engine?

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This railway famously became the first heritage railway in the world when it was tooken over by a preservation society in 1951

What is the Tallylyn Railway?

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This locomotive was controversially claimed to have been the first to reach 100mph in May of 1904

Who is City of Truro?

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This locomotive is known as the last steam engine ever built by British Railways in 1960

Who is Evening Star?

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This steam locomotive designer became CME of the LMS on January 1st, 1932

Who is Sir William Stanier?

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BET YOUR POINTS! This locomotive was made by the model railway company Accurascale, and thomas fans noted how it had the same number as a certain main character in the RWS (Must say the number)

What is 5741 (GWR 5700)?

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This engine was originally supposed to be the Hogwarts Express in the first Harry Porter movie, but was ultimately replaced by Olton Hall due to looking to modern

Who is Taw Valley?

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This locomotive is famous for being the first railway steam locomotive designed by Richard Trevithick in 1804

What is the Pen-y-Darren?

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This class of diesel was the most mass produced class locomotive ever in Britain, with over 70 still in preservation

What is the BR Class 08?

300

One of the reasons this engine was designed and built was famously to be more powerful than the Southern Railway's Lord Nelson class

What is the GWR King Class?

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This railway were famously the owners of Hunslet Austerity No. 3096, who received the name "Wilbert" from the Rev. W. Awdry in 1987

What is the Dean Forest Railway?

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This heritage railway was infamously put under crisis after several landslips and flooding due to storms in 2007 

What is the Severn Valley Railway?

300

This class of engine was the first 2-6-0 tender engine in Britain, being built in the Baldwin Locomotive works in the US due it not being able to be built in Britain due to a labor dispute

What is the MR 2501 Class?

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This engine was built under BR and was named after a previous class of steam engine from the LMS

What is the BR Standard 6?
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BET YOUR POINTS! This 0-6-0+0-6-0T steam engine was built by the Southern to modernise the steam locomotive due to experience gained from their electric stock

What is the Bulleid Leader?

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This engine was stated to be the real life basis for Diesel in the RWS in video by Sodor Island Models (Must specifically say the number)

What is 13236?

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This locomotive was cosmetically overhauled and shipped across the Atlantic in 1966, and worked on the Cape Breton Steam Railway in Canada until 1989 when it was returned to the UK

Who is Repton?

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This steam locomotive designed by Henry Fowler and built in 1861 to be used on the London Underground infamously almost exploded during its first trial on the GWR

What is Fowler's Ghost?

400

Some ships capable of carrying rail vehicles were given this classification by BR under their TOPS system as they "hauled" the trains they carried onboard

What is BR Class 99?

500

This diesel locomotive was one of the first mainline diesels built in Britain, it was used for mainline express trains during the late 40s and its bogie design would later be implemented on the BR Class 77

What is the LMS 10000/BR Class D16/1?

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This engine appeared alongside the Bluebell Railway's Adams Radial Tank Engine 488 in an illustration in the book Stepney the Bluebell engine

Who is 27505 Cromford?

500

This locomotive saved a BR Class 40 hauling a goods train on the Settle and Carlisle line while it was hauling a railtour in 1980

Who is LMS Jubilee Leander?

500

This locomotive famously had the most tractive effort out of any engine in britain until the construction the LNER U1 Garratt in 1925

What is the MR 0-10-0 Big Bertha?

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BET YOUR POINTS! This mainline diesel prototype was built in 1967 and was sold to the Soviet Union in 1971 for £127,000 and was regauged to 4 ft 11+27⁄32 in 

What is the BR HS4000 "Kestrel"?

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