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    The RCTS: then and now

    Nov 04, 2019 2 minutes
    P CHANCELLOR/COLOUR-RAIL

    PRIOR TO 1939 the Railway Observer (RO) used the term ‘Light Railways’ in conjunction with reports about the railway empire of Colonel Stephens.

    By the late 20th and early 21st centuries the description encompasses modern urban rapid transit and tram systems rather than the traditional ‘heavy’ railways.

    The decline

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