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  • Wrong IET set at Castle Cary for Glastonbury event founder naming

    Wrong IET set at Castle Cary for Glastonbury event founder naming

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    Words: Peter Nicholson Castle Cary station, Somerset, on the GWR’s West of England Main Line, has new station signs reading ‘Castle Cary Station of the Glastonbury Festival‘.  The signs were officially dedicated on the morning of April 9 by 83-year old Michael Eavis, the festival’s founder, who was included in a list of 100 Great…

  • Helston gets historic St Austell GWR footbridge

    Helston gets historic St Austell GWR footbridge

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    ST AUSTELL station’s landmark GWR footbridge is to stay in Cornwall after all – having been moved to the award-winning Helston Railway. There had been calls for the 1882 riveted iron lattice footbridge to remain in the duchy as part of its heritage, despite it being superseded by a new £500,000 fully-accessible footbridge five years…

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