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02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
19th Apr (1938)

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from Quarrying and brick making on the Isle of Wight	grahame	0	385	August 26, 2022, 21:25:39 by grahame
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New trains incompatible with standard track	grahame	5	1090	September 08, 2022, 13:47:03 by eightonedee
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Built but never opened ... « 1 2 »	grahame	17	3238	October 13, 2023, 14:51:45 by Mark A
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Garden Railway - clearing the leaves	grahame	0	876	November 07, 2023, 08:28:06 by grahame
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Standardisation of Time and the Railway Clearing House	grahame	3	1657	September 22, 2023, 18:36:01 by Electric train
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24th November 1960 - runaway freight train	grahame	0	309	November 24, 2023, 05:11:21 by grahame
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