Rival railway museums in row over steam locomotive ownership

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Rival railway museums in row over steam locomotive ownership

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Rival railway museums in row over steam locomotive ownership
A row has broken out between rival railway museums over the ownership of the world’s first passenger steam locomotive.

Darlington council wants Locomotion No 1 to stay in the town’s Head of Steam Museum but the National Railway Museum (NRM), which owns the locomotive, wants to move it 10 miles away to Locomotion, its museum in Shildon.

The engine is a unique souvenir of Britain’s pioneering role in the development of rail transport in the early 19th century and has been on display in Darlington for 163 years...
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