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    Jun 01, 2020 3 minutes

    Redhill station - Evacuation trains from Dunkirk 1940

    THANK-YOU for the feature in The RM (May) about the trains used for the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk.

    The lower picture (p43) showed the Up platforms at Redhill, where troop trains from Dover and other ports arrived.

    I lived up the line just beyond the bridge No. 1083, shown in the background, where engines coming off the trains would assemble before going back down the main

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