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    May 30, 2022 3 minutes

    Pit to power station

    By Chris Booth

    THIS latest book from railway author Chris Booth is both useful and valuable, in that it deals with a significant era of massive change on our railways when our coal industry gradually ceased to exist and the national railway network was privatised. The author had a railway career in signalling based around Worksop in the East Midlands, and he devoted a great deal of time to recording and documenting an important, but soon to vanish, industrial railway operation.

    After setting the scene in the 1980s,

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