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Summertime and some big galas

THERE is plenty to interest the enthusiast in the early part of the summer season. The Epping Ongar Railway will be staging its steam gala starring visiting USATC S160 2-8-0

No. 5197 and the Statfold Barn Railway will be holding one of its occasional open days which will be the traditional multi-engine narrow gauge spectacular.

The Tanfield Railway’s Legends of Industry Gala will see an intensive service of passenger and goods trains, featuring Hunslet Austerity No. 60 which has just entered service on the Aln Valley

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