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Before the opening of the Engine House in 2008, 80300 was used as the visitor centre at Highley. This visitor centre was officially opened on 2 June 2001.<ref>SVR News 137</ref>
{{As of|20182019}}, 80300 is on long term display at [[The Engine House]] with the interior accessible to the public. The ‘postal special’ featured in the 1936 GPO film ‘Night Mail’, noted for the poem written by WH Auden and music by Benjamin Britten. Part of this film can be seen in the TPO at Highley.
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==Links==
*[http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrustrhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=2429 80300 on www.vintagecarriagestrust.orgRailway Heritage Register On-Line]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvOj8FBPAXg "Night Mail" on YouTube, a 1936 documentary showing practices that changed little over the following 40 years.]
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