Steam: city of truro 3440 puffs from cholsey to wallingford

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City of Truro steams from Cholsey to Wallingford on 28th June 2008. Cholsey is on the GWR line from Reading to Oxford. Hear the intermittent "heavy puffing"! CoT was built at Swindon Works in May 1903. Its most astonishing achievement was in May 1904 when hauling a train of ocean mails from Plymouth to London the magic "ton" was exceeded as the train descended a gradient at Whitball in Somerset reaching a claimed top speed of just over 102 mph.
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