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    Make tracks for BELLINGHAM

    Oct 15, 2018 4 minutes

    Village heritage centres can be a mixed bag, when it comes to portraying local railway history, and much depends on funding, who’s involved, how much prominence local railway heritage receives alongside other aspects of rural life, and how professionally artefacts are presented.

    If you want to experience a model of its type, however, make tracks for Bellingham Heritage Centre in Northumberland, situated on the village’s station site, where the original platform and buildings survive. There, you’ll be able to tap right into the life and times of the much-lamented Border Counties Railway which linked Hexham with Riccarton Junction on the Waverley Route, crossing some wild country en route.

    The fact that your first sight of the centre will be

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