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York museum is the next stop for Far Tottering train!

THE National Railway Museum is now the owner of the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway.

The York venue has paid an undisclosed sum, reported by one source as stretching into six figures, for Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley, a 26ft long kinetic structure built by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang creator and cartoonist Rowland Emett.

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