A 74-year-old steam train will roll up to the platform at Salisbury Railway Station this weekend.
The No. 7029 Clun Castle, built in 1950, served in the Western Region of British Railways for 15 years, retiring in 1965.
According to the charity Vintage Trains, which operates the locomotive, the Clun Castle took the record for the shortest timed point-to-point journey from Plymouth to Bristol in 1964.
The train also made history as the last steam train to depart from Paddington and in 1992 became the first steam locomotive to travel to Cornwall since the end of regular steam train services in the 1960s.
On Saturday, March 2, the Clun Castle will be making an express run from Brimingham Snow Hill to Salisbury and back.
The southbound leg of the journey will take an estimated four hours and 17 minutes, while the return journey to Birmingham is estimated to take four hours and 36 minutes.
The train will be arriving on Platform 4 at Salisbury Railway Station at 11.30am and departing from Platform 3 at 3.05pm.
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