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    "Railways around Manchester" by John Glover

    I fnally got around to reading this having bought it a couple of years ago. Excellent well reproduced pictures but some of the captions are really disappointing. For someone with a supposedly encyclopaedic knowledge of the local railways Mr Glover makes some poor mistakes. The railway from...
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    Train types that have served Davenport (Fairly trivial)

    Hope this is the right place for this. I moved to davenport in 1977 (for the avoidance of doubt that is Davenport near Stockport on the Buxton branch) and at that time every train that served Davenport station was a BRCW class 104 DMU. There were no non-stop trains as far as I recall. Since...
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    What is a Bay Platform??

    Apologies if answered elsewhere ... I did do a bit of a search but found nothing. Having been interested in railways since the 1960s I was always quite clear that a bay platform was a terminal platform which was let into a longer platform (usually a through platform but on occasion a longer...

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