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How volunteers resurrected a Welsh railway
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
Before historical preservation was a trendy weekend hobby, rail nerds were essentially breaking and entering. In 1948, the abandoned Ffestiniog Railway was decaying into the Welsh mountains. A rogue group of enthusiasts organized a grassroots rescue, physically clearing tracks and navigating bureaucratic hell just to run steam engines again, accidentally inventing the modern heritage railway movement.
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