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Lalla Rookh was a broad-gauge locomotive of the GWR, designed by Daniel Gooch, and introduced into service in 1855. The class of ten locomotives were known as the "Waverley" class, and were generally named after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, although Lalla Rookh is actually a poem by Thomas Moore.
For many years, the society owned a model of Lalla Rookh, which was displayed in Tiverton Museum. Unfortunately, in 2024, the museum decided it no longer wanted to display the model, so the society decided to sell it at auction, which took place in 2025.