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The idea then sprang to mind that if we could not get to a rally, why could a rally not come to us? Therefore in 1963 the Market
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number 2090, named 'Pixie', and set about building a light railway in the grounds of the
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another narrow gauge locomotive, number 1695, which was an engine he had seen working a light railway at
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