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A Victorian Survivor At Wellingborough Midland Road
With the electrification of the Midland Main line northwards from Bedford, there were fears that the old ridge and furrow glazed roof over the down fast platform of Wellingborough Midland Road station would have to go. Thankfully, despite being cut b
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Rhapsodies In Blue
Out of the 1950s Modernisation Plan came a desire by British Railways to update the image of Pullman travel, based around ‘traditional’ Pullman cars of the 1920s/’30s, and the result was five sets of 2,000hp diesel-electric units built by Metropolita
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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