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Famous GG1 #4800 was retired by Conrail and donated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. On the morning of March 10. 1980, [HASHTAG]#4800[/HASHTAG] has arrived at the museum and is being shoved into the museum yard by Strasburg RR 44 ton #33
 
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The Great Western Railways No. 1401 was a 0-4-2T built in August 1932 at Swindon as No. 4801.
It was the second member of the 4800 class, which totalled 75 by 1936.
In 1946 the locomotive along with the rest of its class were rebranded as the 1400 class, as the GWR converted twelve of its 2800 class of Consolidations to burn oil, reassigning the 4800 class to that series of experimental locomotives.
In 1952, she starred in the Ealing Studios comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt, occasionally swapping numberplates with 1450, so more filming could be done quicker. A replica was also built for the crash sequence.
After this, she carried on her existence as normal, before being broken up in November 1959.
 
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LMS 4-6-0 'Stanier Black 5' No 4813 is seen coming off shed having been fully coaled and watered. Built at Derby works in October 1944 No 4813 remained in service until it was withdrawn from Stoke-on-Trent shed in September 1966 to be scrapped by J Cashmore of Great Bridge in December of the same year. The LMS had underestimated the number of the class they would require consequently the block of numbers set aside for Stanier's mixed traffic Class 5's, 5000 to 5499, were not being sufficient. The LMS then allocated a further block of two hundred numbers, 4800 to 4999, but again they ran out of numbers so they started numbering below 4800. Eventually the eight hundred and forty-two examples of the class would be built, the last few being built under the auspices of British Railways and they were eventually numbered by British Railways from No 44658 to No 45499.
 
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