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‘Green Dragon’ returns for Railway Children celebrations

THE long-awaited reappearance of traffic on the Lancashire &Yorkshire Railway 0-6-0 No. 957 to Keighley & Worth Valley Railway took place in late August, celebrating its starring role in the 1970 film The Railway Children.

Restored in the fictional Great Northern & Southern Railway green livery it wore

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