Kenya - old boiler

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John Ashworth
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Kenya - old boiler

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Photos by John Ashworth around 1996 or '97

This could be the boiler from 5906.
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what happened to the rest of 5906?
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Lost in the mists of time, I suppose. By the mid-1990s as far as I know there were only two Class 59s left in Kenya, 5918 and 5930, both in the railway museum. I don't know why an extra boiler survived.
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