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Harry and Edna enjoy going back to the Edwardian age on the Leighton Buzzard preserved railway. The Leighton Buzzard railway have numerous restored locomotives from the First World War trenches, including an 1917 American locomotive which saw service on the Western Front taking troops and supplies to the trenches.


W.W.1 Impression

1908 London Olympics

W.W.1 Recruiting Post

Pack up your Kitbag

Remembrance Sunday

Great War Railway

Dickens of a Christmas

Harry & Edna's
W.W.2  impression

W.W.1 / Edwardian
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Edna's Educational Workshops

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Past Events

As the Leighton Buzzard have an American locomotive Harry dressed as a WW1 US army soldier. The locomotive was a type: 4-6-0T (side tank) built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA (Works No. 44656). The locomotive is 1 of 495 built by Baldwin, for the War Department Light Railways and operated on the thousands of miles of narrow-gauge tracks that supplied the front line trenches in the First World War.

This particular locomotive then worked in India until the 1980's at the Upper India Sugar Mills in Uttar Pradesh. The locomotive was first of its type to steam in Britain since the late 1940s, it has recently completed a major overhaul.

Edna dressed in a specially commissioned reproduction of a three piece travelling suit from the 1916 W & H Walker's catalogue. The catalogue says "the fabrics used for this garment are durable and in dark colours that are practical for travelling on a rail road".

As well as appearing on Edwardian preserved railway lines Harry & Edna have also had the pleasure of travelling on the WW2 wartime railway.

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