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    WSR to close for three-month ‘re-group’ after investigation

    Dec 02, 2018 3 minutes
    QUENTIN HAWKES

    THE West Somerset Railway (WSR) has made the unprecedented decision to voluntarily close for three months from January 2 to April 1, 2019 in order to‘re-group’following a visit by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and the issuing of its findings.

    As a result there will be no running during the February half-term and the annual Spring Steam Gala in March has been postponed. While this will undoubtedly hit the railway financially, and maybe also in

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