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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]As a little boy I used to be taken to the old Railway Station at Langley Mill by my Grandad (George Wild) and in those days (1966) we would still see the odd steam locomotive. Anyone know when the last steam worked along the erewash valley line? I can also remember just after the station closed from the end of 1966 there was a bloke acting as a watchman who let my grandad take me on the closed station and the old station house being flattened sometime in 1972, anyone with any more precise info? Or photos?[/quote]
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Russell Saxton

Langley Mills railways
replied on: 8/31/2003 6:48:42 PM

As a little boy I used to be taken to the old Railway Station at Langley Mill by my Grandad (George Wild) and in those days (1966) we would still see the odd steam locomotive. Anyone know when the last steam worked along the erewash valley line?
I can also remember just after the station closed from the end of 1966 there was a bloke acting as a watchman who let my grandad take me on the closed station and the old station house being flattened sometime in 1972, anyone with any more precise info? Or photos?

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