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    TRACKS TO THE TRENCHES 3

    Sep 02, 2018 3 minutes
    CLIFF THOMAS

    THE Moseley Railway Trust’s (MRT) Tracks to the Trenches event made its debut in 2014 at the Apedale Valley Light Railway, a century after the First World War broke out.

    The formula was repeated in 2016, 100 years after the Battle of the Somme began and Allied use of light railways took off, with a third event taking place on July 13-15 this year as the anniversary of the Armistice approaches.

    The basis of Tracks to the Trenches is commemoration of the role of light railways in the

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