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TRAINSPOTTING IN THE SOUTH

BISHOPSTON | OO | LAYOUT

Let's go back a number of years to almost when the world was still in black and white, many people didn't have a telephone in their homes, and some maybe not even a television. A time in the early 1960s when the railway was still responsible for conveying thousands of people to the coast for their annual holiday. It's also a time when the railway was rapidly changing – steam locos were disappearing and diesels were taking over. We're sitting on the platform seat at Bishopston, down in the south-west of England, doing a bit of train watching.

Bishopston is a small terminus station on the end of a

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