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FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES

100 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 1921

Line washed away

URING the recent exceptional high tide, a part of the Clacton-on-Sea branch of the Great Eastern Railway, between Hythe and Wivenhoe, was washed away. This occurred about midday and, until a temporary single line could be completed at about 9pm on the same day, communication had to be maintained by

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