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The decline and fall of the Westerham Railway: A Prelude to Beeching

HERE is a railway book that in so many ways is unlike anything that has gone before.

It is now nearly 70 years since the Westerham branch in West Kent closed, and enthusiasts banded together to try to save it, firstly as a commuter line using GWR railcars and then as an out-and-out heritage railway with classic steam.

The closure of the

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