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2 unusual facts about Donald and Douglas


Donald and Douglas

In 2000, the Mid Hants Railway in Hampshire converted a Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST class engine into a tender engine remeniscient of the London and South Western 700 class 0-6-0 tender engines, a move which was greeted by a negative reaction from railway ethusiasts as it was not a true replica but a 'look-a-like'.

Donald Douglas

Donald and Douglas, Scottish twin engines from "The Railway Series" by W.V. Awdry, and TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends


Tugboat Annie

In The Railway Series book, The Twin Engines, Gordon the Big Engine references Tugboat Annie when he teases Donald and Douglas about their deep-tone whistles.


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