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    Great Northern Outpost Vol 3: Faded Glory

    By Alan Whitaker & Jan Rapacz. Willowherb Publishing, PO Box 160, Manchester M9 9AN. Hardback, 112pp, £19.95, ISBN 978-0-9935678-6-5.

    Those seeing just the cover of this book for the first time might ponder on exactly where was the faded glory, as there is nothing more specific in the title. If regarded as a puzzle picture, the evocative cover photograph should help the enquiring mind to come up with the correct answer. It shows a begrimed B1 hauling two empty wagons and a brake van on weed-strewn

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