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Future secured as Clacton Express EMU makes a return to its home region

THE future of Class 309 No. 309624 has been hanging in the balance after its custodian, the Clacton Express Preservation Group, was given notice to vacate the site at Isfield, where it had resided since initially being acquired by the Lavender Line following closure of the Electric Railway Museum in Coventry, the group having purchased the EMU in

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