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    Aug 20, 2021 4 minutes
    Chris Leigh Editor

    One of the inevitable consequences of a change of editor is a hiccup in the continuity of Comment. While I concentrated on my first Comment for Steam World 410, I was unaware of what Andy Roden was writing in his last. It was fascinating to see the ‘then and now’ views of the Hayle Wharves branch, a place I knew of, but of which I had seen few pictures. Andy’s ‘historic’ photograph of the wharves branch has no train in the picture, not even a stabled wagon.

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