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WHILE its class as a whole celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, March marked the centenary of GWR 4-6-0 No. 4079 Pendennis Castle with a weekend event of steam at its Didcot Railway Centre home before it set out on its travels.
Delivered new to Old Oak Common from Swindon on March 4, 1924, its working life saw it take charge of services to SouthWales and the West Country. The following year it partook in the locomotive.