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    ‘Starving’ wartime schoolboy reunited with his potato railway train at LCLR

    Jul 30, 2019 2 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    LCLR

    AN 88-year-old pensioner who rode on one of Lincolnshire’s legendary potato farm railways as a 12-year-old schoolboy has been reunited with one of ‘his’ trains.

    In the school holidays in 1942/43, Peter Jarvis of Nottingham was drafted into the Lincolnshire Fens to pick potatoes for the wartime food campaign – but the cloud held a big silver lining for him.

    Peter was already

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