Unique Lnwr 0-8-0 No. 49395 has been retired to static display in Shildon, but pop mogul Pete Waterman has pledged to return the engine to steam even though the National Railway Museum affirms that "there are no current plans to overhaul the'Super D". The Bowen-Cooke G2a class - which is out-of-ticket - was moved from the East Lancashire Railway to the National Railway Museum's Locomotion outbase on March 3, but Mr Waterman, who has been responsible for the loco's welfare since the mid-1990s, says he had intended to move it again to a yet-to-be-revealed workshop site later this year for overhaul as part of a new business venture. He envisages No. 49395 being back in steam within two years of work, starting in January, although he admitted to The Railway Magazine that he is "still in dispute with the NRM" over aspects of the agreement.
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