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North Wales Rail Scene 1970s-1990s

By Garry Stroud

THIS collection of photographs covers two decades of the changing scene along the coastal route to Holyhead (including the breakwater Class 01s), documenting the locomotives and units that worked in the area during the second half of the BR period.

The images have been organised into geographical order from the Holyhead end, taking in the branches to Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog, and finishing around Wrexham. The northern section of the

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