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Title: Preserved at Railworld Post by: bradshaw on September 17, 2017, 15:43:37 Does anyone remember this development?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41268817/museum-in-bid-to-preserve-1960s-uk-hovertrain Title: Re: Preserved at Railworld Post by: stuving on September 17, 2017, 20:10:45 I certainly remember it, and I thought I remembered driving past THL's test track at Earith. However, having looked up where it was (it has been demolished) I doubt that it was ever visible from the road. There is too big an obstruction in the way: the Hundred Foot Bank. I must be thinking of the French Aérotrain test track north of Orléans; it still exists and I know I've seen that one.
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