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I started getting interested in railways after doing research on what the railways used to be like in the steam-age. My father has always been an avid railway-modeler, modeling the era he was brought up in (40s), so I guess that was the root of my research.
I found myself moved by just how much of our railway heritage was wantonly destroyed in such a short time, so-called in the name of progress.
How ironic then that 21st century thinking proves the great pioneers to be correct: it was very obviously more environmentally friendly to use one train rather than 40 or 50 cars vans or lorries to transport the same mass of freight or quantity of people.
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