Newstead will make the journey up the A1 to be put on public display in Peterborough An industrial steam engine last used to haul coal in the 1970s has been "rediscovered" at a convent in the east of ...

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An industrial steam engine last used to haul coal in the 1970s has been "rediscovered" at a convent in the east of England. It was thought the 1929 locomotive, called "Newstead", had been scrapped.