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    Setting Standards at Loughborough: ‘Forgotten’ 4MT progress despite lockdown

    Apr 13, 2021 3 minutes
    By Ian Crowder
    ROGER WASLEY
    F&R HEWETT/STEPHENSON LOCOMOTIVE SOCIETY

    IN THE workshops of Locomotive Maintenance Services (LMS) at Loughborough, work has continued to slowly progress on the frames of BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 No. 76077 in spite of the pandemic lockdown while several new components – including the chimney and smokebox door – have been manufactured.

    This is the ‘forgotten Standard’ which arrived for restoration at Toddington in May 1987, having been purchased by Chris Hinton.

    The locomotive was in a sorry state; as a late departure from Barry scrapyard in South Wales, much

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