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EATTIE BACK AT BOSCARNE: Is this the greatest survivor of them all?
Nearer to the age of Rocket than R.A. Riddles, and obsolete by the 1890s, it was listed for scrapping in 1900. Yet along with two sister locomotives, Beattie well tank No. 298 soldiered on in service on the Bodmin to Padstow and Wenfordbridge lines for another 62 years - because no suitable replacements could be found! Now, following an Ã
Nearer to the age of Rocket than R.A. Riddles, and obsolete by the 1890s, it was listed for scrapping in 1900. Yet along with two sister locomotives, Beattie well tank No. 298 soldiered on in service on the Bodmin to Padstow and Wenfordbridge lines for another 62 years - because no suitable replacements could be found! Now, following an Ã
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