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Location Category ID:
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3170
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Address: |
Quainton Road Station, Quainton, near Aylesbury, Bucks, HP22 4BY
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(01296) 655720
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office [at] bucksrailcentre.org (Replace [at] with @)
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BRC
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Wikipedia
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Latitude, Longitude: |
51.86457198
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-0.92983603
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Location Accuracy: |
7
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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a working steam museum spread over a 25 acre site. At the north-west corner of the site are the terminal buildings of 1851 from Oxford Rewley Road railway station transplanted here in 2002 to serve as reception, visitor centre and display building (source: Wikipedia). Exhibits range from express passenger locomotives to shunting engines. Carriages in the collection include a dining car from the royal train of 1901 as well as another reputedly used by General Eisenhower and Winston Churchill amongst others for wartime planning meetings.
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Unique ID: |
1893
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Registration: |
06 FA 10. Side skirts are stamped with “05 FB 40” and “00 EB 61”.
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According to the BRC Stockbook website: “This Chieftain Tank arrived at the centre on the 29th September 2003 from the Bovington Tank Museum. Currently located in the Downyard, it is intended to be mounted on the War Well, once modifications are completed. It will then be displayed to demonstrate the original use of these rail vehicles, though it will be over-gauge for the rail lines at Quainton.”. It is a Mark 11 with Stillbrew armour around the turret front. Its service included CVD Ludgershall, Queens Royal Irish Hussars and 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (source: Bovington Museum Vehicle Record). Marked ‘LOAN OUT’ in Bovington museum record on 28 December 2005.
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