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FLAGS flew, bands played, people cheered and Locomotion No 1, saved from the scrapyard, stood quietly by as Joseph Pease laid the foundation stone of the pedestal on which the historic engine was to be placed. As the first part of the day-long proceedings on June 6, 1857, came to an end, Henry Pease, Joseph’s younger brother who was the newly elected MP for South Durham, took to the plinth and said that “he rejoiced at seeing the first locomotive about to be placed in a suitable position, so as to hand down to posterity a memorial of one of the greatest events the civilised world ever witnessed”.