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The Lost Junction At Dauntsey
How does a railway enthusiast evince a dedicated fascination with a railway station long-vanished from the face of the earth? How does the lure of a denuded wasteland exert such a strong pull over someone who was not even alive during a former railwa
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The Coming Of The Railway To Annfield Plain
The idea of the railway coming to Annfield Plain in County Durham in 1893 may seem unusual as the railway, in the form of the Stanhope & Tyne, had already come to Annfield Plain 59 years earlier as it made its inclined plane-ridden journey from Stanh
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From The Dawn Of Public Railways the Whitby Weighing Machine House
A short distance downstream from the magnificent Larpool Viaduct on the outskirts of Whitby lies a ruinous stone building dating from the earliest days of public railways. Today, the little building is obscured by fencing and shrubbery and so underst

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