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Golden Anniversary Gala
THE Kent & East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) celebrated its half-century in style on June 1/2, with a 50th anniversary gala encompassing the Rother Valley Railway (RVR), which is reconstructing the route’s missing link between Robertsbridge and Bodiam. The
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Five Steam Beside The Seaside
FAIRBOURNE Railway’s May 25-27 annual steam gala featured two interesting guest steam locomotives, one being a first-time visitor and the other returning to the line where it spent much of its working life in its 100th anniversary year. On the 12.25i
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‘Trubble At T’Tunnel’
IT was nearly midnight at Huddersfield on August 12, 1866 as the Normanton to Bangor mail train approached the station, its chief stopping point in the West Riding of Yorkshire. This train normally loaded to just three vehicles: a post office sorting

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