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A cheap trip!

Posted on September 20, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

Spotted last Friday on everyone’s favourite tat bazaar, FleaBay – this wonderful handbill from the dying years on local rail.
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Ticket to ride

Posted on August 28, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

A lovely enquiry for the Bank Holiday weekend came in a couple of days ago courtesy of reader Lawrence Hodgkinson, who has submitted a beautiful scan of a rather unusual ticket stub from a railway special excursion in 1952.

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