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    Gala adds traction to season

    Nov 29, 2021 2 minutes
    JACK BOSKETT

    THE Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) has ended its pre-Christmas operating season in spectacular style, with a two-day mixed traction gala that attracted almost 2,000 passengers.

    The event, over the weekend of November 6/7, was staged as a finale to the railway’s 40th anniversary with eight locomotives operating – four steam, four

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