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Hosking gives a bolthole to classic electrics at Margate

JEREMY Hosking’s Locomotive Storage Limited has given an under cover home to two classic EMU sets that were forced to leave the Electric Railway Museum at Coventry after it closed.

The 4-SUB set No. 4732 and LMS Class 503 set, plus a spare 4 EPB trailer No. 5176 in BR blue, have into the iconic former Hornby headquarters in Margate’s Westwood Industrial Estate.

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