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WHO, WHERE AND WHEN?

This small and apparently very early sepia print was recently found at a collectors’ fair, but although it is seemingly of railway origin, both the subject and location have so far defied any positive identification.

The vehicle is what might be loosely termed a rail-velocipede and such machines were very much in vogue during the latter part of the nineteenth century, with many railway companies using them for line inspection purposes,

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