2-2-2 Columbine's preservation history

[Raspberry_Horn]

Hi, wondered if anyone can help with possible false memory syndrome! Vague idea I saw Columbine in a London museum back in the seventies, but nothing I can trace online seems to bear this out. Was it ever in Clapham Common museum, or Science Mus?

 

[eldomtom2]

Columbine is in the Science Museum today, so the obvious conclusion would be that you are confusing a later visit with an earlier one.

 

[Raspberry_Horn]

Thing is tho, on encountering it in 'adult life' in that location, I had this 'we've met before' thing about it!

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Cornwall, the other old LNWR 2-2-2, was in the Clapham museum, but I don't think Columbine ever was. Could you perhaps be remembering seeing Cornwall (all LNWR locos look the same!).

I think Columbine has only been in the Science Museum since about 1999 and before that was in both old and new York museums.