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    Memories of yesterday for ex-Stratford railwaymen

    Jul 02, 2019 3 minutes
    By Geoff Courtney
    AE BENNETT/TRANSPORT TREASURY
    ANDREW SMITH

    TODAY it’s the location of Stratford International station and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the latter covering 560 acres and a testimony to the power of money and sport, the vision of the British people of many cultures, and how a quest for a legacy – one of the buzzwords of our 21st century life – can be fulfilled.

    In the steam era the site – or at least part of it – was occupied by Stratford locomotive depot and works

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