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Thames-side Workings
Established in 1868, the Northfleet Coal & Ballast Co. acted as agents for sea-borne coal to firms close to the River Thames, sending chalk and clays as return loads. By 1900 their local quarries were nearing exhaustion and in 1902 they bought a patc
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Coronation Class
The London Midland & Scottish Railway ‘Coronation’ Pacifics of William Stanier will need no introduction to most Backtrack readers as the zenith of top link motive power on the West Coast Main Line in the steam era. 38 of them were built between 1937
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Protecting The Tube Part Two
We have seen in Part One of this article (June) that prior to the start of World War II there was beginning to be a realisation in official circles of just how vulnerable parts of London's Underground railway network were to the possibility of floodi

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