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Steam engine's first journey in memory of Devon boy

VIDEO: The Lord Oliver Brown chugs along Plym Valley

A steam train restored in memory of a young Devon boy has made its maiden journey.

It took to the tracks of the Plym Valley Railway yesterday on what would have been Oliver Brown's seventeenth birthday.

The locomotive fan died of a rare illness when he was eleven.

The Lord Oliver Brown is in two bright colours: pink - Oliver's favourite - and green, in recognition of the help that Children's Hospice South West gave him.

This video is from BBC Spotlight.

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