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UPCYCLED AND RE-USED COMMENT

Isn’t this just lovely?!

I bought it on eBay a while ago and, if I recall correctly, I had to bid quite high to get it.

The location is, of course, Oxenhope, the terminus and literal ‘top-end’ of the Worth Valley branch from Keighley. What’s different about it, is that it was taken when the Midland Railway’s 5 mile-long branch line was still

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