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    Invicta flies high into its new Whitstable Museum home

    Jul 02, 2019 2 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    TOM BANBURY/EVOLUTION DRONE
    JONATHAN HENSON
    TOM BANBURY/EVOLUTION DRONE

    CANTERBURY & Whitstable pioneer Invicta, the world’s first locomotive not only to haul regular passenger trains but to enter preservation, hit dizzy new heights on Sunday, June 16 – when it was craned into its new museum home, 189 years after being delivered to the Kent line.

    The next locomotive to be built by Robert Stephenson & Company after was lifted over the Victorian rooftops by crane and lowered millimetre by millimetre for permanent display in the Whitstable Community Museum & Gallery.

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