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38 Steaming back in the seventies: Preservation 1970-74
Those who thought that steam died when British Railways ran the a€~15 Guinea Speciala€ on 11 August 1968 could not have been more wrong. The end of main line steam spurred thousands of enthusiasts to follow the 60s example of the Bluebell, Middleton, Dart Valley and Keighley & Worth Valley railways and launch their own preservation schemes. And apart from the landmark return of main line steam in late 1971, the decade saw some of BritainÃ
38 Steaming back in the seventies: Preservation 1970-74
Those who thought that steam died when British Railways ran the a€~15 Guinea Speciala€ on 11 August 1968 could not have been more wrong. The end of main line steam spurred thousands of enthusiasts to follow the 60s example of the Bluebell, Middleton, Dart Valley and Keighley & Worth Valley railways and launch their own preservation schemes. And apart from the landmark return of main line steam in late 1971, the decade saw some of BritainÃ
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