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Rural idyll at East Garston, on the Lambourn branch line

belong to various rail-related and placerelated groups on Facebook and from time to time an irresistible photograph will be posted. Take, for instance, this wonderful picture at East Garston, a tiny station on the Newbury-Lambourn branch. Staff are about to load a very fine-looking child’s pram into the guard’s van of a Lambourn-bound train. It’s a warm, sunny afternoon in East

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