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Hi,
The Great Central is host to a set of 16 (I think) mineral wagons (saved by Steam Railway magazine as they often tell us), that will have a guards van on the end. The set is used a 'windcutter' set - from the nickname for the relativly fast running freight trains that used it before Beeching shut it.
Now the line is in use (for preservation purposes), so what was the best line for a high speed route (as it was built both last in the country (except for HS1), and as a link to an earlier (& not completed) channel tunnel building) is not available; or the joys of totally short term thinking!
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Yours Peter Bunce.
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