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    FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES

    Apr 01, 2019 2 minutes
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    IAIN C SCOTCHMAN

    100 YEARS AGO APRIL 1919

    DURING 1918, special fish traffic on the Great North of Scotland Railway, at Peterhead and Fraserburgh, easily eclipsed all previous records, the number of special trains run being 579; number of trucks loaded, 12,555, and weight of fish carried, 36,470 tons – an increase of 59 per cent in weight over the very heavy traffic in 1917. On

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