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Farewell to a former editor of The Railway Magazine

PETER was larger than life in more ways than one, an imposing figure with a jovial personality and a monumental passion for trains, traction engines, tractors, bicycles, motorbikes and virtually every form of heritage transport.

Taking over the regulator of at a time of dwindling copy sales in early-1989, he used his experience as a newspaper journalist to completely overhaul the product, increasing the number

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