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    THE MID LAND'S MYSTERIOUS PAGET LOCOMOTIVE

    Jun 01, 2020 3 minutes
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    l(NOWN as the 'Paget Locomotive', or 'Paget's Folly' by its critics, 2-6-2 No. 2299 was an experimental steam locomotive constructed at Derby Works in 1907 /08 to the design of Midland Railway General Superintendent, Sir Cecil Paget.

    His novel concept could have played a greater role in shaping the future of steam locomotives, but internal politics at Derby Works reduced it to little more than a footnote in British railway history.

    Paget, son of Midland Railway (MR) chairman Sir George Ernest Paget and then Derby Works manager, had been widely tipped

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