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Lifelong steam enthusiast eyes a post-pandemic return to one of Europe’s preserved ‘hidden gems’

JAMES Waite is one of millions in the UK and around the world whose plans have been disrupted by the Covid pandemic. In some cases that disruption is permanent, but lifelong steam enthusiast James is hoping his is temporary – for one of his ambitions is to travel the Nagycenk Museum Railway, a little-known line in Hungary that he regards as a “hidden gem.”

The 760mm (2ft 6in) gauge line in the

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