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Archive for July, 2014
Who is this 1838 GWR shareholder? Can anyone help?
This was sent to me today by antiquarian book dealer, Patrick Pollack. It shows an entry in an anonymous cash-book for 1838 where the owner has bought shares in the GWR! So, who could it be? It must be someone with considerable wealth and, of course, this was the year the GWR opened so it […]
The Long Marston Military Railway Centre
It is a huge pleasure to see this group starting up at the northern end of ‘our’ railway, the Glos Warks Railway, for two main reasons. The first one is very personal: when I was 15 and forced to be a member of the school’s cadet force in Dorchester, the only silver lining in what […]
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