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Reader, Doug Hewson asked if he could do a little nitpicking from the November 2023 . He says, “On Page 56 there is a letter from Christopher Horne showing an ‘8F’ stopped at Moreton-inMarsh, hauling what is supposedly an iron ore tippler train. I beg to differ on this, but the wagons are all BR 16t on minerals as far back as I can see. I don't think BR would load them with iron ore

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