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BUILDING THE DJH 8F

ooking back over the last year is to reflect on the strangest 12 months of my life (and just about every else’s as well). Normally, I attend as many as 20 shows a year in my capacity as demonstrator and locomotive doctor, but since the beginning of March last year they’ve stopped. Not only that, at least 50 times a year I’ve had visitors over to see and operate ‘Little Bytham’. Lockdown has also curtailed that. Though nobody would wish the situation to have happened, at least railway modellers have a hobby, which ensures they can keep an active mind occupied in doing something creative. In

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