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| Issue 120 (Autumn 2007) | | Heritage Coach Project Launched by Steam Trust
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| | A Grand Day Out
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| | The Beeching Legacy 1967-1975
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| Issue 119 (Summer 2007) | | Heritage Coach Project Launched by Steam Trust
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| | A Learning Curve: West Spur of the Norton Triangle
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| | Volunteering on a New Zealand Railway
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| | Proposals for a Carriage Shed and Museum Unveiled
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| Issue 118 (Spring 2007) | | New Horizons for Dinmore Manor
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| | Steaming Granny at Large
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| | What a WSR Fireman does in his Spare Time
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| | West Somerset Spring Steam - colour feature
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| Issue 117 (Winter 2007) | | Virgin Trains shuttle from Taunton
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| | 200,000 passengers carried in successive years
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| | Collett Coach Comes Home
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| | Restoring 5193
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| Issue 116 (Autumn 2006) | | Westinghouse Award for Bishops Lydeard Signalling
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| | Women and the Great Western
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| | Life and Times of a Sleeping Car
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| | The Beeching Legacy: The Closures of 1966
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| | Norton: Tribulations of a Triangle!
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| Issue 115 (Summer 2006) | | Lord Nelson and Five Other Guests for Steam Gala
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| | From Taunton to Eastleigh in 1946
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| | Beyond the Flail Line: Taming the Lineside Growth
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| Issue 114 (Spring 2006) | | Paul Conibeare becomes new General Manager
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| | In Search of Brunel: The Giant’s Grave
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| | Couriers on the West Somerset Railway
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| | The Way We Were: Thirty Years Ago
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| Issue 113 (Winter 2006) | | 3850: In Steam and in West Somerset
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| | Steam Returns to Bath Green Park
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| | The Minehead Stone Trains
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| | Reflections on a Career in Railways
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| | Last Day of Trains on the Minehead Branch
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| Issue 112 (Autumn 2005) | | Awards Bonanza for the West Somerset Railway
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| | The Beeching Closures of 1964 & 1965
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| | Best Kept Stations Contest 2005
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| Issue 111 (Summer 2005) | | Super D, The Duke and Beattie Well Tank for Autumn Steam Gala
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| | Memories of Taunton Station in the 1940’s
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| Issue 110 (Spring 2005) | | Initial Planning Consent for Norton Triangle
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| | Company reaffirms position over Minehead
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| | A Step Back in Time: 1920’s Somerset
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| Issue 109 (Winter 2005) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Issue 108 (Autumn 2004) | | Independent Railway of the Year 2004
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| | Best Kept Stations Competition 2004
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| | Once Upon A Time in the West Country
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| | Crowcombe Heathfield’s Permanent Way Revival
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| Issue 107 (Summer 2004) | | 5199 & 32678 for Autumn Gala
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| | Visiting locos to Taunton in 1947
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| | West Country Class Naming Ceremonies
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| Issue 106 (Spring 2004) | | Plans for Norton and Minehead
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| | Odney Manor purchased by WSR plc
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| | Auto trailer 169 project
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| | The Beeching Legacy – 40 Years On
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| Issue 105 (Winter 2004) | | Three millionth Passenger Carried
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| | On Location at Lessboro’ Station
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| | By Virgin Voyager to Minehead
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| Issue 104 (Autumn 2003) | | Heritage Freight Train Strategy
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| | The Twenty Mile Sales Pitch
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| | The Bristol Bath Road Project
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| Issue 103 (Summer 2003) | | Plymouth: Steam in the 1940’s
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| | Pannier and Prairie Autumn Gala
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| | Western Steam Scenes
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| Issue 102 (Spring 2003) | | A Southern Interlude: Part III
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| | Exploring the Borders of Somerset and Devon by Train: Part II
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| Issue 101 (Winter 2003) | | Exploring the Borders of Somerset and Devon by Train: Part I
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| | A Further Southern Interlude
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| | Polish Takeover
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| Issue 100 (Autumn 2002) | | West Somerset’s First Royal Visitor Since Preservation
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| | Nightmare or Dream?
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| | The Great Wall of Watchet!
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| | Return of the Prodigal Prairie
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| | A Southern Interlude
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| Issue 99 (Summer 2002) | | It’s Back: 5542 Steams
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| | Norton Fitzwarren: The Station that Got Away!
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| Issue 98 (Spring 2002) | | Making West Somerset’s Wagons Roll
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| | Williton Works Outing 2001
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| | 3850: Preparing for the Final Push
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| Issue 97 (Winter 2002) | | Norton Section cleared for 55mph!
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| | Ourselves as Others See U.S.
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| | From Steam to Weather Vanes – via Power!
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| | Meet the Association Administrator
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| Issue 96 (Autumn 2001) | | Happy Somerset & Dorset Memories
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| | No 6412: Its Last Duties for British Railways
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| | Cambrian Veteran Heads for Home
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| | Gauge Museum Officially Opened
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| | Looking Towards the Future
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| Issue 95 (Summer 2001) | | Tributes to Harry Lee
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| | Major Milestone for 5542
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| | The Trials and Tribulations of a Minehead Line Commuter
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| Issue 94 (Spring 2001) | | WSR: The First 25 Years
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| | Restoring Toplight No 3668
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| | Surfing the West Somerset Web!
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| | Preserving No 9 for Posterity
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| Issue 93 (Winter 2001) | | No 61264 to be First Eastern Visitor
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| | Teamwork Wins the Day
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| | Two of a (Fairly Similar) Kind
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| | Williton Works: The View from Within
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| Issue 92 (Autumn 2000) | | Tribute to Harry Horn
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| | The Company’s Three Year Business Plan
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| | Primroses Grow 173½ Miles from Paddington
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| | First WSR/CAMRA Real Ale Festival
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| Issue 91 (Summer 2000) | | Stone Trains: Keeping Helwell at Bay
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| | Kilmersdon Honours the S&DRT’s Mike Palmer
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| | 5193: Losing a Bunker, but Gaining a Tender!
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| | The Making of an Engine Driver
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| Issue 90 (Spring 2000) | | Loco Appeal Fund Re-launched
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| | Didcot’s 4144 is Summer Visitor
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| | Taunton Tank Engines Recalled
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| | Murder on the Minehead Express
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| Issue 89 (Winter 2000) | | Silver Serenade
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| | Year 2000 Diary
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| | Earl Bathurst for the Holiday Haunts Gala
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| | 1999 Season Pictorial
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| | West Somerset Developments Post-1930
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| Issue 88 (Autumn 1999) | | Western Region Tanks in Action
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| | A Flavour of the Fayre - & The Bears
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| | West Somerset Signalling Safari
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| Issue 87 (Summer 1999) | | Prussian Blue livery for No 88
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| | Learning to Drive Dinmore Manor
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| Issue 86 (Spring 1999) | | Taunton Area Passenger rain Working
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| | Taking the Great Western Beyond 2000
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| Issue 85 (Winter 1999) | | Tales of the West Country
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| | Steam until 2020 for No 88
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| | Images of 1998: Pictorial Review
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| Issue 84 (Autumn 1998) | | No 6412: The Inside Story
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| | Debut of Ditcheat Manor
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| | How It All Began
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| | Minehead Line Memories
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| | The Taunton Connection
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| Issue 83 (Summer 1998) | | Minehead Shed Extension Opens for Business
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| | Preservation’s last-steamed ‘Manor’ arrives
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| | A ‘King’ and Deltic for September Galas
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| | How far should we go?
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| | Smoke in the Lens
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| Issue 82 (Spring 1998) | | Twenty Years of the Journal
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| | Tributes to Dr Peter Thompson
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| | Witherslack Hall and 9681 to visit
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| Issue 81 (Winter 1998) | | Dinmore Manor: Past, Present & Future
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| | 4561 goes black
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| | WSR locomotives – where to see them in 1998
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| Issue 80 (Autumn 1997) | | Bishops Lydeard Re-signalling
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| | The Nightmare that never was
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| Issue 79 (Summer 1997) | | Great Western Gala: Pictorial Review
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| | Taw Valley & 33048 arrive
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| | Antiques Roadshow success
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| | Working the Stone
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| Issue 78 (Spring 1997) | | First sod cut for new Stone Siding
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| | West Somerset Diesels: A Pictorial Feature
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| | Taunton Area Freight Working
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| Issue 77 (Winter 1997) | | Two Bulleid’s on the WSR
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| | Stone Contract Confirmed
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| | Preview of Spring Steam & Diesel Galas
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| | Westinghouse Winner
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| Issue 76 (Autumn 1996) | | Twenty Years on the Road
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| | Two Days in Summer
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| | Bishops Lydeard Outing
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| Issue 75 (Summer 1996) | | Humphrey Davies becomes new WSRA Chairman
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| | “Royal Oak” arrives at Bishops Lydeard
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| | The 1996 Business Plan
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| | WSRA Steam Fayre: Ten Years On…
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| | Braunton: Super Bulleid…
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| Issue 74 (Spring 1996) | | Slow, Dirty & Magnificent
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| | 4277 to arrive
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| | Project Braunton
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| Issue 73 (Winter 1996) | | David Williams becomes Journal Editor
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| | Beginner’s Guide to Transport Law
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| Issue 72 (Autumn 1995) | | Working the Minehead Branch: Part 2
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| | The ‘Angus’ System
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| | The 1996 Vintage Rally
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| | The ‘Duke’
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| | Richard Jones retires as Journal Editor
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| Issue 71 (Summer 1995) | | The Crowcombe Re-signalling Project
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| | Working the Minehead Branch: Part 1
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| | Odney Manor
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| Issue 70 (Spring 1995) | | Locomotive Appeal Fund
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| | 1994 Coach Mileages
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| | The Business Plan
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| | 53808 in BR livery
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| Issue 69 (Winter 1995) | | Working the Barnstaple Branch
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| | A Tale of Two Galas
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| | The 1994 Diesel Gala
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| | The Company Buffet Coaches
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| Issue 68 (Autumn 1994) | | From Barry to Barry: The Life of No 4160 – Part 2
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| | Bradley Manor
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| | From the Archives: The Winter of 1963
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| | 1994 Steam Fayre & Vintage Vehicle Rally
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| Issue 67 (Summer 1994) | | The Tarmac Shed – Williton
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| | Selling the WSR – Marketing Importance
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| | Dear Liza……Coach No 215
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| | Wartime Weekend Photocall
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| Issue 66 (Spring 1994) | | No 75069 – WSR guest loco for 1994
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| | Beyond Milepost 165¼ - BR Privatisation and the WSR
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| | The Brown Report
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| | Steam Locomotive Mileages
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| Issue 65 (Winter 1994) | | From Barry to Barry: The Life of No 4160 – Part 1
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| | Stanier Rides Again
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| | Blue, Green, Choc and Cream – Coach Liveries
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| | One Week in October – 2
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| Issue 64 (Autumn 1993) | | Best Yet – The 1993 Vintage Rally
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| | Locomotive Appeal Fund
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| | Diesels – The Future
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| | Great Western Railway Air Services
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| Issue 63 (Summer 1993) | | Have Camera Will Travel – Charter Freight Trains
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| | Half a Lifetime on the WSR
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| | The Park Royals
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| Issue 62 (Spring 1993) | | Harry Horn’s Tales
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| | By HST to BL
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| | A Journey along the Branch in 1934 – Part 2
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| | The Journey of a Duchess
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| | 8F’s Around Taunton in 1946
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| Issue 61(Winter 1993) | | A ‘Black 8’ in Somerset
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| | One Week in October
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| | Teamwork for Thomas
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| | By ‘37’ to Minehead
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| | A Journey along the Branch in 1934 – Part 1
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| Issue 60 (Autumn 1992) | | The Guard’s Journal
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| | The Park Royals
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| | 6412 to the WSR in 1976
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| | City of Truro
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| | Locomotion to Crowcombe
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| Issue 59 (Summer 1992) | | Taunton 150
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| | Twilight of Steam at Taunton
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| | Miss Marple on Location
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| | Fred Morgan – B&ER Engineman
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| Issue 58 (Spring 1992) | | Taunton 150 – Anniversary Gala Plans
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| | 3440 City of Truro
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| | WSR Press Day
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| | The 1842 Opening of Taunton Station
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| | Steam Photocall
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| Issue 57 (Winter 1992) | | GWR 2-8-0’s – Two of a Kind
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| | Thomas Edmondson – Ticket Printing
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| | A Winter’s Tale – Part 2
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| | 4561 on the Kingsbridge Branch
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| Issue 56 (Autumn 1991) | | A Winter’s Tale – Part 1
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| | A Sad Farewell – The Closure of the Minehead Branch
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| | Heavy Metal returns to BL
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| | Diesels on Tour
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| Issue 55 (Summer 1991) | | Bishops Lydeard Visitor Centre
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| | Visiting Locomotives – What Next..?
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| | Lorna Doone Saloon Coach
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| | 6106
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| | The ‘Minehead Flyer’ from Hull
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| Issue 54 (Spring 1991) | | Minehead Re-signalling
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| | The Lynmouth & Minehead Light Railway
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| | Paddington to Minehead Special
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| Issue 53 (Winter 1991) | | The History of 6106
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| | 61xx Tanks on the Minehead Branch
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| | WSR Lineside Photography
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| | Crowcombe Re-signalling
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| Issue 52 (Autumn 1990) | | Steam Highlights of 1990 – Photocall
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| | WSR’s Water Supplies
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| Issue 51 (Summer 1990) | | Bishops Lydeard Water Tower
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| | Manchester to Minehead Special
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| | A Day in the Life of a WSR Guard
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| Issue 50 (Spring 1990) | | Winter Storms on the WSR
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| | Diesel Gala Day
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| | Concreting on the WSR
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| Issue 49 (Winter 1989-90) | | Santa Specials
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| | Evening Star
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| Issue 48 (Autumn 1989) | | 4561 Steams Again
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| | The Controller’s Day
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| | GWR Sleeping Car
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| | Vintage Rally
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| | 1989 Gala Week
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| Issue 47 (Summer 1989) | | Driving the 7F
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| | Bank Holiday Visits
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| | Evening Star and 53808
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| | GWR 1886 Working Timetable
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| | A Hymek at Watchet
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| Issue 46 (Spring 1989) | | Minehead Level Crossing
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| | Evening Star arrives
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| | PW Work at Williton in the 50’s and 60’s
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| | S&T in GW days
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| Issue 45 (Winter 1988-89) | | WSR Taunton Bus Link
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| | Catenary to Cornwall
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| | Cider Special
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| Issue 44 (Autumn 1989) | | The Minehead Branch – 1940’s-1960’s
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| | Sunset Special
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| | Freight Trains
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| | Summer of 1988 Photocall
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| Issue 43 (Summer 1989) | | Doniford Beach Halt Opens
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| | Farewell to “Victor”
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| | Joseph Strong Remembers
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| Issue 42 (Spring 1989) | | Coastal Defences
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| | Minehead Controller
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| | Santa Specials
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| | Winter Working
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| | Life as a Williton Porter
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| Winter 1988 | | Doniford Beach Halt
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| | 1987 Gala Week
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| | View from the Coaches
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| | Restaurant Car “Orion”
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| Autumn 1987 | | Watchet Shunting (1945-1971)
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| | 53808 in Steam
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| | A DMU Driver’s View
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| Summer 1987 | | Watchet 125 Anniversary
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| | On the Footplate – Part 3
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| | Dunster Goods Shed
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| | The Case for Steam
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| Spring 1987 | | Minehead Water Tower
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| | On the Footplate – Part 2
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| | 125 Years of the WSR
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| | Rural Scenes
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| | Bristol & Exeter Railway
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| Vol. 10 No. 4 (Winter 1986-87) | | Future of the WSR
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| | 5542
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| | On the Footplate – Part 1
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| | Minehead Station
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| Vol. 10 No. 3 (Autumn 1986) | | WSR Best Kept Station
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| | Blue Anchor Scenes
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| | A Day in the Life of the WSR
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Please note that, due to an error at the time, the following Issue Numbers have never been used and do not exist – Vol. 10 No. 2, Vol. 10 No. 1, Vol. 9 No. 4. Vol. 9 No. 3 and Vol. 10 No. 3 are consecutive issues.
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| Vol. 9 No. 3 (Summer 1986) | | “Vulcan”
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| | Stogumber Archives
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| Vol. 9 No. 2 (Spring 1986) | | The Blue Anchor Accident of 1883
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| | Bishops Lydeard Station Yard
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| | Class 14’s
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| | Joseph Horn and Stogumber Station
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| Vol. 9 No. 1 (Winter 1986) | | GWR Clerestory Sleeping Car No 9038
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| | GWR 150 Week
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| | The Holiday Line – Part 4
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| Vol. 8 No. 4 (Autumn 1985) | | The Holiday Line – Part 3
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| | Blue Anchor Museum
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| | Watchet Harbour in the 1930’s
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| Vol. 8 No. 3 (Summer 1985) | | The Holiday Line – Part 2
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| | Natural Life on the WSR
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| | Great Western 150
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| | Easter 1985
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| | The WSR and its Rivals
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| | A Volunteer’s Life
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| Vol. 8 No. 2 (Spring 1985) | | Dinmore Manor
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| | The Holiday Line – Part 1
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| | Wildlife on the WSR
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| | Blue Anchor Level Crossing
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| Vol. 8 No. 1 (Winter 1985) | | Permanent Way ‘Enterprise and Volunteers’
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| | Excursion to Norton Fitzwarren
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| | Blue Anchor Station
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| | 6412 in Service
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| Vol. 7 No. 4 (Autumn 1984) | | Signalman on the WSR
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| | Dinmore Manor
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| | Diesel Weekend
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| | Dunster Signalbox (1961)
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| | Blue Anchor Museum
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| Vol. 7 No. 3 (Summer 1984) | | Watchet Station
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| | Crowcombe Station
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| | “Jennifer” at Crowcombe
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| | 4561 Project
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| Vol. 7 No. 2 (Spring 1984) | | Norton Fitzwarren
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| | A Round Trip in 1940
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| | Permanent Way Work
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| | 6412 at Stroud in 1964
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| Vol. 7 No. 1 (January 1984) | | Crowcombe Station
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| | 4561 Project
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| | West Somerset Steam Railway Trust
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| | Company Policies
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| | WSR Financial Crisis
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| | Washford Station in the 1930’s
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| Vol. 6 No. 4 (October 1983) | | 38xx Preservation
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| | Stogumber Finances
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| | Washford Station
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| | Editorial: The Financial Crisis
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| | Dunster Station in the 1950’s
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| Vol. 6 No. 3 (July 1983) | | Easter Fair and the Transport Rally
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| | Dunster Station
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| | End of the Broad Gauge on the WSR
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| | Life of a Volunteer
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| Vol. 6 No. 2 (April 1983) | | Cleeve Abbey
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| | Minehead Station
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| | Diary of a Booking Clerk
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| | Watchet Station
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| | WSR Finances in 1913
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| Vol. 6 No. 1 (January 1983) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Vol. 5 No. 4 (Oct/Nov 1982) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Vol. 5 No. 3 (July 1982) | | Watchet Station
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| | The Quantock Belle
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| | Permanent Way Maintenance Part 1
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| | S&D 7F’s
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| | Pre-War Saturdays at Minehead
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| Vol. 5 No. 2 (April 1982) | | Station Facilities on the Branch
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| | A Volunteer Signalman
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| | Williton Station
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| | WSR Permanent Way
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| | The Big Diesels Part 1
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| Vol. 5 No. 1 (January 1982) | | Blue Anchor Station
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| | Crowcombe Station
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| | Passenger’s view of WSR Lydeard-Taunton Bus
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| Vol. 4 No. 4 (October 1981) | | Dunster Station
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| | Happy Days on the Old Minehead Line
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| | WSR Signal Boxes
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| Vol. 4 No. 3 (July 1981) | | Somerset and Dorset Trust, Washford
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| Vol. 4 No. 2 (April 1981) | | The West Somerset Railway 1971-76
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| | Ganger’s Occupation Keys
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| Vol. 4 No. 1 (January 1981) | | A Terrier at Minehead
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| | BR Reminiscences Part 4
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| | Signal & Telegraph Department II
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| | West Somerset Mineral Railway Part 3
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| Vol. 3 No. 4 (October 1980) | | Crowcombe: The Other Side of the Story
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| | The Why & Wherefores of Turntables
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| | WSR Holiday
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| | The Pre-History of the West Somerset Mineral Railway Part 2
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| Vol. 3 No. 3 (July 1980) | | New Locomotives
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| | Crowcombe Station
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| | Railway Reminiscences Part 2
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| | The Pre-History of the West Somerset Mineral Railway
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| Vol. 3 No. 2 (April 1980) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| | The Movement of the Pwllheli Turntable
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| | Memories of Stogumber
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| | The Work of the WSR S&T Department Part 9
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| | Railway Reminiscences
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| Vol. 3 No. 1 (January 1980) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Vol. 2 No. 4 (October 1979) | | Gala Weekend
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| | Summer Madness
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| | The Other Alternative
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| | The Work of the WSR S&T Department Part 7
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| | Seven Years at Stogumber Station
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| Vol. 2 No. 3 (July 1979) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Vol. 2 No. 2 (April 1979) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Vol. 2 No. 1 (January 1979) | | The Silent Whistle: Lost Railways of Somerset
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| | The Work of the WSR S&T Department Part 4
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| | A Traveller’s Tale
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| Vol. 1 No. 4 (October 1978) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Vol. 1 No. 3 (July 1978) | | The Guard’s Job
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| | The Movement of Dunster Signal Box
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| | The Constitution
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| | A ‘Terrier’ at Minehead
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| | The Accommodation Coach
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| Vol. 1 No. 2 (April 1978) | | OUT OF STOCK
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| Vol. 1 No. 1 (January 1978) | | Reminiscences
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| | The Work of the Signal & Telegraph Department of the West Somerset Railway 1973-1977
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| | A Volunteer on the WSR
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| | Minehead Shop & Buffet
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| | Please note that copies of Vol. 1 No. 1 are photocopies, not originals
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