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From The Dawn Of Public Railways the Whitby Weighing Machine House
A short distance downstream from the magnificent Larpool Viaduct on the outskirts of Whitby lies a ruinous stone building dating from the earliest days of public railways. Today, the little building is obscured by fencing and shrubbery and so underst
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Day Return From kettering
Regular readers of Backtrack might remember an article in the November 2022 issue describing an outing to Woodford & Hinton in which our friend Geoffrey Webb was able to participate. This is an account of another tour which Geoffrey had suggested and
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Directors' Cut
Having experienced something of a disappointment with his ‘Sir Sam Fay’ express 4-6-0s for the Great Central Railway, Chief Mechanical Engineer J. G. Robinson reverted to the 4-4-0 type and produced a design which was every bit the success that the 4

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