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Title: Somerset and Dorset in Midsomer Norton purchase new trackbed. Post by: johnneyw on November 10, 2023, 22:40:47 The Somerset and Dorset has purchased a significant length of trackback in the Chilcompton direction thanks to a bequest. More about it in the article from Rail Advent, link below:
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2023/11/somerset-heritage-railway-purchases-another-750-yards-of-track-bed.html Title: Re: Somerset and Dorset in Midsomer Norton purchase new trackbed. Post by: infoman on November 11, 2023, 05:20:24 Nice to hear.
Title: Re: Somerset and Dorset in Midsomer Norton purchase new trackbed. Post by: Mark A on November 11, 2023, 10:16:21 Ah, Redan Bridge... I recall standing on its deck in August 1996 after dark, thirty years too late to see the trains and a few days too late to see the last of comet hyakutake which had been visible in the skies from mid-March. That's a dramatic sweeping curve of railway already at an unlikely height above the valley bottom.
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