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→2010: Boxing day details added
:686 The Lady Armaghdale was moved into The Engine House, having been repainted into the red livery of her second owners, ICI Limited.
'''December 2010''': Exceptionally cold weather up to and over Christmas caused difficulties for Boxing Day re-opening. Despite engines having remained lit up over the fortnight and heated where possible. 7802 suffered a fracture in an injector delivery pipe prior to departing Bewdley MPD that morning, brakes jammed its place on and the first train of the day taken by 42968 not after the tender brake cylinder drains and steam heat water feed pipes were frozen soliddefrosted by means of oily rags, alight, and wrapped around the ends of pallet wood! 43106 suffered a shattered piston and broken cylinder cover attributed to the cold weather. 42968 ran the service alone that day and during the course of it clocked up 100,000 miles in preservation.46443 was in the shed for two weeks and actually became stuck to the ground by icicles, while 43106 suffered a shattered piston and broken cylinder cover attributed to the cold weather.
==2011==