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Long-distance train travel means different things to different people. For some a journey on one of the main lines to London will be quite an outing whether on business or for the experience of a visit to the capital. For others, peregrinating from o
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From The Dawn Of Public Railways the Whitby Weighing Machine House
A short distance downstream from the magnificent Larpool Viaduct on the outskirts of Whitby lies a ruinous stone building dating from the earliest days of public railways. Today, the little building is obscured by fencing and shrubbery and so underst
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Langley Green 30 Years Of post-steam Era Freight Operations at This West Midlands Location Part Two
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