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    Directors' Cut
    Having experienced something of a disappointment with his ‘Sir Sam Fay’ express 4-6-0s for the Great Central Railway, Chief Mechanical Engineer J. G. Robinson reverted to the 4-4-0 type and produced a design which was every bit the success that the 4
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    Protecting The tube Part One
    That title may sound slightly intriguing and indeed it is intended to do so; you may therefore wonder what it needed to be protected from and the answer is very simple – water. Firstly, though, perhaps I should try to define ‘The Tube’. Is it, as is
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    Barlaston (and tittensor!)
    Barlaston station, now closed but mothballed, is located on the main ‘Pottery Line’ of the former North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) about 4½ miles to the south of the NSR’s principal station and epicentre at Stokeon-Trent. It was once frequented on a