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| Sandie Seward |
The Last Train to Lambourne.Found this excellent shot story whilst doing some research on the old Lambourne Valley Railway."Along the Lambourn valley there used to run a railway line through the picturesque Berkshire landscape. Originally planned in 1881 it took some 17 years to become a reality and it opened for passenger traffic on the 2nd April 1898. It was neither a famous nor particularly efficient railway service taking some 40 minutes to travel the 12 short miles from Lambourn to bay platform 3 at Newbury but at the time it was a lifeline to the village of Lambourn and its surroundings." Click here to read the rest of this fascinating story. http://www.kentarbox.com/images/l...ay/pages/lvr-snippets/fiction.htm |