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A Day In The Life of Chinley
Much has changed on Britain's rail network since the days of steam but there are one or two places where you still feel that the railway is still doing the work for which it was built. Chapel Milton is one such place. This Peak District tiny hamlet i
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The Other Barry Scrapyards
Barry’s former docks area has been Btransformed in recent years. New houses line the water front. There are green spaces. Barry Island’s Pleasure Park has been completely restored and is now a thriving tourist attraction. There’s even a solar farm ne
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‘Super Ds’ At Oxford
The origins of nickname ‘Super D’ remains unclear but the term ‘Superheated D’ dates from a London& North Western Railway classification scheme from 1905, whereby any simple (ie, not compound) 0-8-0 was described as a ‘D’. But the nickname persisted

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