Our Fowler B5 Crane locomotive

Our big old Fowler B5 Crane locomotive dating back to 1901 represented one of the very first attempts by the British Army to deploy a mechanisation in a theatre of war.

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It was therefore appropriate that this venerable machine would do service at our recent Steam Gala alongside more "modern" military hardware like our Russian Stalin Organ.

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