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It is the intention to mount the boiler on the original driving wheels, collected in 1888, and to replace many of the original parts, which are still in existence, and thus make as authentic restoration of this old locomotive as possible.

The death of Horation Allen, on the 31st of December, 1889, is greatly to be regretted. He had hoped to live to see the work of restoring the "Stourbridge Lion", in which he took the deepest interest, accomplished.