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CHELTENHAM SPA EXPRESS *

THE genteel Gloucestershire town of Cheltenham may seem an unlikely player in the annals of world railway history, but that’s precisely what happened in the 1920s.

The key to the achievement was the superbly-engineered Great Western main line between London and Swindon, nicknamed ‘Brunel’s Billiard Table’. So conducive was this

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