Closed Middleton operates its 60th anniversary train
Jul 10, 2020
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By Robin Jones
MR
IN A nightmare year when heritage railways big and small have cancelled landmark anniversary events, the Middletown Railway still managed to run a special train to mark its Diamond Jubilee.
The first standard-gauge train to be operated by unpaid volunteers left Moor Road, Leeds, at 4.45pm on Monday, June 20, 1960, hauled by Hunslet diesel No. 1697, built locally in Leeds in
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