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Editor’s Comment

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Going beyond the call of duty

THERE was plenty of warning of the snow and freezing temperatures that the storm dubbed the ‘Beast from the East’ (and its successor a couple of weeks later) was to bring to Britain.

No matter how Network Rail and the train operators planned for the worst, there were some areas of the country where services could simply not operate because of the power of the winter weather.

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