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    New driver Dan blazes a trail for young volunteers

    Oct 30, 2020 3 minutes
    By Ian Crowder
    JACK BOSKETT/G/WR

    DAN Wigg has just qualified as the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s (G/WR) youngest steam driver, at the age of 24.

    October 3 saw him passed out on WR 4-6-0 No. 7903 Foremarke Hall, and not only did he fulfil a childhood dream, but continued a big family tradition.

    His grandfather was a fitter at the former Great Western locomotive depot at Horton Road, Gloucester and his father Greg is a trustee of the Restoration & Archiving Trust at Toddington

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