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Clun Castle to perform for Ironbridge branch farewell

VINTAGE Trains (VT) has added two more opportunities to ride behind Tyseley’s beautifully restored No. 7029 Clun Castle on June 9.

The double-chimneyed BR‘Castle’will work what are expected to be the last passenger trains over the former GWR branch to Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge.

Two shuttles

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