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today - West Wiltshire RUG
17/05/25 - Summer Timetable Starts
18/05/25 - Portishead RNLI 10 anniversary
23/05/25 - Go-op Crowd Funding closes

On this day
14th May (1951)

first Tal-y-llyn trains run under preservation (link)

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Electric train day out	Electric train	4	1760	August 30, 2018, 21:01:44 by Electric train
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Women only carriages? How about women only trains!	Adelante_CCT	5	1766	August 09, 2018, 22:53:09 by devonexpress
Always two sides to a story « 1 2 »	bobm	20	4635	August 09, 2018, 22:50:11 by devonexpress
Railway posters for the 21st Century	JayMac	7	2269	August 01, 2018, 15:28:50 by patch38
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