Railways remember August 1968 and the ‘end of steam’
Sep 02, 2018
2 minutes
ROBERT FALCONER
JOHN TITLOW
ANDREW JEFFERY
AUGUST marked 50 years since BR’s final withdrawal of standard gauge steam and a number of heritage lines held events or operated trains to commemorate the anniversary.
The Great Central Railway was in full-on re-creation mode during the weekends of August 4-5 and 11-12, which half a century earlier had seen both BR’s last
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