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Peckett No. 1900, nicknamed The Flying Bufferbeam is an 0-4-0T tank steam locomotive that lives at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

History[]

Built in 1936 by Peckett & Sons of Bristol, England, it is the smallest standard gauge steam locomotive built in Britain, at a height of five feet, four inches.

As of today the engine is still at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre where it operates.

Trivia[]

  • With its diminutive size, it is known to many as The Flying Bufferbeam, though for a while at Quainton it had been named Jill.
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