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    Mar 04, 2019 2 minutes

    Leicestershire ’s Lost Railways

    By Neil Burgess

    A NUMBER of rail routes and stations throughout Leicestershire were lost to the ‘Beeching Axe’, but some of the more rural lines in the east of the county lost their passenger services in the 1950s or well before.

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