Old Fashioned Transportation Still Carries Plenty of Steam ; If You Thought Dr Beeching's Hatchet Attack On the Branch Lines of Britain During the 1950s Would Herald a Gradual Downturn in the Demand for Railway-Related Artefacts, Think Again.

Western Daily Press › April 24, 2008

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If You thought Dr Beeching's hatchet attack on the branch lines of Britain during the 1950s would herald a gradual downturn in the demand for railway-related artefacts, think again.

The passage of time has clearly done nothing to diminish the commercial appeal of trains or, for that matter, boats, planes or automobiles, as the results from Dreweatts 1759's transport sale at Apsley Road, Clifton, showed this month.

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Old Fashioned Transportation Still Carries Plenty of Steam ; If You Thought Dr Beeching's Hatchet Attack On the Branch Lines of Britain During the 1950s Would Herald a Gradual Downturn in the Demand for Railway-Related Artefacts, Think Again.

Pride of place went to a well engineered 7.25- inch gauge live steam model of the LNER Class B1 tender locomotive...

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