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Via Melton Mowbray
A search on a railway atlas is probably unlikely to reveal the precise location of Brentingby Junction, because the suffix ‘junction’ merely indicated the point at which goods loops converged with the main running lines east of Melton Mowbray on the
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Editorial
Long-distance train travel means different things to different people. For some a journey on one of the main lines to London will be quite an outing whether on business or for the experience of a visit to the capital. For others, peregrinating from o
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The Talyllyn Railway In Old Postcards
Authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1865 and thus the first narrow gauge railway designed for steam from its inception, the Talyllyn Railway Company became another notable ‘first’ 86 years later when it became the World’s First Preserved Railway. S

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