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    FOREIGN TRAIN WATCHING SEVENTY YEARS AGO

    Dec 07, 2022 1 minute

    In common with most other young men in the late 1940s and 1950, possibly even further on in time, I was drafted into His Majesty's service. As a young railwayman it was almost inevitable that the Royal Engineers and then Longmoor

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