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unexpected new track

« on: September 25, 2011, 11:56:23 »

Travelling from reading to truro, just looking out the window minding my own business, and noticed we passed through melksham,
Was only planning on doing one new bit of track for me over the weekend, but have due to engineering work diversions and being too lazy to use the tube from waterloo to paddington actually covered 3 new stretches!


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