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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 is dominated by two great stone viaducts. Both carry heavy stone trains from the quarries that scar the landscape between Buxton and Sheffield. Although diesel engines now rumble across the valley, there's still a ‘bobby’ in the signalbox controlling the trains.

Somehow, the essence of the

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