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    In memory of John Farrow: November 24, 1949-April 19, 2020

    May 15, 2020 2 minutes
    by Phil Marsh
    PHIL MARSH
    PHIL MARSH

    IT WOULD be hard to believe that any reader of Heritage Railway has not heard of John Farrow who organised railtours over the last five decades.

    Aged 70, he died in the early hours of Sunday, April 19 at the Royal Free Hospital in London, leaving behind his wife Clare and two children Elizabeth and Simon and three grandchildren.

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