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    Downs Light Railway ‘safe’ despite school merger, says trust chairman

    May 10, 2022 2 minutes
    By Robin Jones

    ASSURANCES are being given that the award-winning Downs Light Railway – the world’s oldest private miniature railway – will survive following an announcement that the Herefordshire school where it has been based for 97 years is to merge with another and relocate.

    The Downs Malvern, which is based near Colwall, and The Elms, which lies a mile away, will be brought together as

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