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    ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - ARE WE RAILWAYENTHUSIASTS... OR JUST ENGINE FANS?

    Apr 16, 2021 3 minutes

    We’re all railway enthusiasts, right? OK, that’s a silly question to readers of a magazine like Steam World...

    Or maybe not. Think about this for a moment. We can probably agree we’re not ‘locospotters’ - a term that seems to have fallen out of use. And we’re almost certainly not the now too often-derided ‘trainspotters’, even if that’s how many of us may have started.

    So almost by default, we’re railway enthusiasts. It’s a term that carries a comforting, serious air, and suggests a wider, more mature interest than just underlining

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