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Engine 5199

The locomotive is not certified to run on mainline metals and has to be moved around the country by road transport.
 
The majority of preserved steam locomotives are not certified to travel on the network and have to travel in this fashion.

There are currently less than a handful that have certified approval to travel by rail.
 
This is strange, we passed this or one identical on the M5 on Monday afternoon heading north. Last night we saw the same engine again on the M5 by Lydia Ash junction.
 
It might have been the tank loco 1450 belonging to the Severn Valley railway that you saw at Lydiate Ash. It had been in Somerset for a few days. Why you saw it twice I can't say, unless it was off somewhere else, Tyseley maybe. If t was that loco it is smaller than the other one mentioned above but they are both painted in a form of GR green.
 
We had a Pecket 0-4-0ST from Tyseley at the Garden Show NEC it arrived on the Thursday a week before the show opened. The Pullman Coach had been there much earlier.
 
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