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info on the axle weight limit in 1973 and reasons for bridge replacement thereafter
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The Great Marquess was steamed for the first time since arrival the previous year. With an axle weight in excess of 19 tons, but was found to exceed it exceeded the current axle limit on of 17 tons 12 cwt in the lineSVR's Light Railway Order granted in May 1970. A condition of the locomotive's move to the SVR was that it could be used there once restored, and so the locomotive was therefore stored pending while discussions took place over a possible transfer to another railway. In the NYMRmeantime a program of work was underway to upgrade the line, including replacement of several bridges, to raise the permitted limit to a figure in excess of 20 tons. This upgrade was achieved in due course.
==1974==
