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    Mar 12, 2019 3 minutes

    50 YEARS AGO...

    APRIL 1969

    FINAL WAVERLEY FREIGHT: The daily freight from Millerhill to Hawick, the final working over the northern half of the Waverley Route, ended on April 25. The last train was hauled by Class 17 No. 8606, although motive power for the trip in the three months since the through route between Carlisle and Edinburgh closed included Classes 25, 26 and 40.

    Track recovery began on the closed Bedford-Cambridge railway in April, starting from the Bedford end and expected to reach Sandy (on the East Coast

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