The Didcot Railway Centre have announced that Wantage Tramway No.5 is having a day out in the sunshine this July.
The locomotive is normally kept inside the engine shed at Didcot Railway Centre, so it is a unique opportunity to see the 161-year-old locomotive out in the open air.
The occasion is a visit by the Shannon Express Male Barbershop Harmony Chorus, which will take place from 12 noon on the 14th July 2018 to serenade the locomotive.
The group is based in Potton, where No.5 originally worked on the Sandy and Potton Railway in 1857, where she was then called Shannon.
She was sold to the Wantage Tramway in 1877, and worked there for nearly 80 years and was known as Jane.
She is now part of the national collection and is owned by the National Railway Museum in York and on long-term loan to the Didcot Railway Centre
The Shannon Express Chorus last visited Didcot in 2007 to serenade the locomotive on her 150th anniversary and are now celebrating their own 40th birthday.
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