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HISTORY MADE AS DUO RUN TOGETHER AT LAST AND ISN’T LYN ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT PAIRED WITH LYD ?

Preservation history was certainly made on the last weekend of September. It was then that two new locomotives representing half of the original Lynton & Barnstaple Railway fleet ran in tandem on the modern-day heritage line.

Of course, as Gareth Evans relates on pages 54-57, both appeared in the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway’s September 14-16 Super-Power Weekend, but by agreement they did not meet.

That occasion was reserved for the L&B’s autumn steam gala, and the exclusivity of the meeting drew bumper crowds to

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