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    Restoring Your Railways Fund

    I don't think I've seen any mention of the latest DfT publication of the Restoring Your Railways programme update which is dated 18th June and seems to have been published in the past couple of days. Given all the other railway focus at the moment, that would be understandable. The summary...
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    International track standard gauge

    I'm just reading a book published in the 1920s - the Railways of the World - which has as its first chapter 'Across the Sea' which includes amongst other topics the then relatively new train ferry from Harwich to Zeebrugge. One paragraph says: The exchange of wagons and vans between European...
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    Post Offices on railway stations

    I'm a member of the Railway Philatelic Group and we are researching which railway stations had post offices on them. Many of the offices were in Scotland, but they can be found across the country. In many cases the postmaster was also the station master. Even today there continue to be a small...

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