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    Minehead sells prairie to Dart Valley to cut liabilities

    Feb 12, 2019 3 minutes
    DON BISHOP

    THE West Somerset Railway has sold GWR Large Prairie No. 4110 to the Dart Valley Railway plc in the latest of a series of robust measures to reduce its liabilities.

    WSR plc placed the unrestored former Minehead branch locomotive on sale before Christmas. It was bought from the Southall Railway Great Western Preservation Group in 2015.

    Members of the railway’s mechanical engineering department launched a £120,000 appeal to buy it ( 250), and had raised the

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