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Go West Young Man
After nearly four days spent at Zhongwei over Christmas 1987 (featured in Steam and Rail in China), we then headed for Jiayuguan in the northwestern province of Gansu. This was a 28-hour, 1,076km-long journey, steam hauled all the way by a succession
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Half A Century Of Harz Memories
During a trip to the Harz narrow gauge system in February 2023, the horrifying thought struck the writer that it was now over FIFTY years since his first visit. In 1972, our group arrived at Wernigerode on the D170 express from Berlin (the group had
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Ethiopia 1955
In early 1955 my father mentioned that he had received a letter from his old friend Dimitrios Pappas in Addis Ababa. I asked why he was there - the answer was that he was the personal physician of Emperor Haile Selassie. Never one to miss an opportun

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