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the Fairy Queen is the longest-operating steam locomotive in the world?
the gardens of St George's Square, Pimlico, London, contain a statue of William Huskisson MP, the first person ever to be run over and killed by a railway engine?
when the John Bull ran under its own power in 1981 it became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world?
the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
the Munich Soviet declared war on Switzerland, for their refusal to lend sixty locomotives?
Sans Pareil (pictured), one of five locomotives to compete in the 1829 Rainhill Trials, was later used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway?
in 1883, Southern Pacific Railroad tried to block the California Southern Railroad from installing a level junction across their tracks in Colton, California, by moving a locomotive slowly back and forth at the intersection point?
the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?
Fr. John Willms once stood in the way of a locomotive in order to allow his congregation to hear a sermon in silence?

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