HISTORIC steam engines are to go on show outside a rail museum for possibly the final time ever before they head back to America and Canada.
The A4 class locomotives Dwight D Eisenhower and Dominion of Canada are on display at Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon.
They travelled 2,527miles across the Atlantic to return to Britain for the first time in 50-years.
Fellow A4 engines Mallard, Union of South Africa, Sir Nigel Gresley and Bittern joined them on show at the National Railway Museum, in York, and in Shildon over the last year.
They were reunited for a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of Mallard becoming the world’s fastest steam engine.
Bittern, Sir Nigel Gresley, Union of South Africa and Mallard have now returned to their usual homes.
The last two A4s, Dwight D Eisenhower and Dominion of Canada, will not make their journey back across the Atlantic until after Easter.
They are to be display on the apron outside of the museum’s Collection building on Friday (March 28) during the day.
There will also be a coach and a Heartbeat bus belonging to the Aycliffe and District Bus Preservation Society on site between 9.30am and 10.30am.
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