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    Jul 02, 2019 3 minutes

    The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway: Past and Present

    By John Whitehouse (softback, The Nostalgia Collection, 128pp, £20, ISBN 978 1 85895 29 2 5).

    HERE is a volume that has been desperately needed for many years. During that time, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway has steadily grown into a major ‘somewhere to somewhere’player in the heritage railway portfolio.

    With the award-winning extension to Broadway that was opened last year to phenomenal success, the G/WR can finally take its place in the UK’s Premier League of lines. Unlike the established bigger lines, however, the G/WR had

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