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WHAT'S THE ATTRACTION?

I'm not sure if I should apologise for the above photograph. I am sure some readers will dislike it. There's no train, no track, a dumped car and some derelict buildings. They are, however, railway buildings – or, at least, they once were.

I'm always a bit wary of showing ‘dead’ railways and derelict railway equipment. I intensely dislike pictures of withdrawn locomotives but they are an historic truth that we can't

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