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    World’s second enthusiast-built line reopens three years after theft blow

    Oct 30, 2020 3 minutes
    By Chris Bates
    CHRIS BATES
    CHRIS BATES

    THE world’s second public line to be built by enthusiasts – the Ocean Beach Railway (OBR) in Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island – was due to reopen on October 24, after being closed for three years.

    When the world’s first heritage railway to be built by enthusiasts on a greenfield site, the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway (LCLR), opened on August 27, 1960 at its original site in North Sea Lane, Humberston, already on the far

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