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    Ammunition wagon for Foxfield restored at Her Majesty’s pleasure

    Mar 10, 2020 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
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    SERVING prisoners are turning into wagon restorers to bring a First World War ammunition truck back to life.

    Inmates at Category B HMP Dovegate, near Uttoxeter, are being given the chance to develop skills in large scale woodwork, metalwork, painting, heritage restoration and project management in the prison workshops this year under the initiative launched by the Foxfield Railway’s Knotty Coach Trust.

    The focus of the scheme will be a six-ton five-plank wagon built in Derby Works by the

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