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Daily Post steam train makes tracks for Guides' and Brownies' centenary.


THE Girl Guiding centenary will be celebrated with a Daily Post steam train.

The only train marking the 100th anniversary of the leading girls' youth group will run this Sunday from Merseyside to York.

The Daily Post's Yorkshire Scot train will double as the St Helens St Helens may refer to:

Places:
  • St Helens, Merseyside, England
  • St Helens RFC, rugby league club
  • St Helens Town F.C.
 Girlguiding Centenary Express. The train will be hauled by 1927-built Royal Scot class steam locomotive Scots Guardsman, in the guise of long-lost sister engine, The Girl Guide.

The train will carry 324 Brownies and Girl Guides in dedicated coaches, plus the public, from Liverpool, Lea Green and St Helens Junction.

There is a pounds 5 discount per passenger by quoting TYS TYS Told You So
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TYS Thank You Sir
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 with Railway Touring Co, tel: 01553 661500. THE New Age of Steam, by Peter Elson, Trinity Mirror Trinity Mirror plc is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People, Sunday Mail and Daily Record.  Merseyside, pounds 4.99 from newsagents, and online from www. Merseyshop.com

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Steam locomotive Scots Guardsman - seen at Ribblehead - will haul the only Girl Guiding centenary train
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Publication:Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date:Sep 2, 2009
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