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    The Cadeby Light Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway in the garden of the rectory in Cadeby, Leicestershire. In the early 1960s the Reverend...
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  • Edwin Boston (category British people associated with Heritage Railways)
    Sutton Cheney 545. In the words of Peter Scott, "The story of the Cadeby Light Railway is really the story of one man - 'Teddy' Boston". In May 1962, Boston...
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  • Darley Dale. Cadeby Light Railway, Cadeby, Leicestershire – closed in 2005. Chester Zoo monorail, Chester Zoo, Chester Creekmoor Light Railway, Poole, Dorset...
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    boys'. Until 2005, Cadeby Rectory garden was home to the Cadeby Light Railway. This was a short narrow gauge line and collection of railway artifacts belonging...
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    Corris Craft Centre ZM32 Horwich at Steeple Grange Light Railway Joffre 3010 at the Statfold Barn Railway On 8 October 1997 it was announced that Alfred McAlpine...
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    Astley – 18th-century Norfolk pluralist Edwin Boston – founder of the Cadeby Light Railway, "the Fat Clergyman" in the books of the Rev. W. Awdry John Bradburne...
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  • Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway. In December several locomotives arrived from storage at the Cadeby Light Railway, including the last remaining...
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  • the Cadeby Light Railway – loco and stock now at Apedale. Moseley Railway Trust – Apedale Station construction – March 2007 Ex-Cadeby Light Railway MotorRail...
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    notable as a traction engine and light railway enthusiast and engineer who constructed the now-dismantled Cadeby Light Railway. He was immortalised in his...
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    2090 Pixie, on the Cadeby Light Railway in 1981 Huntley & Palmers No.1, Bagnall 0-4-0F preserved at Cholsey and Wallingford Railway 0-4-0ST 2067/1917 'Peter'...
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  • Gauge Railway Society. June 1983. Stuart Chapman (1 July 2017). Eynsford Light Railway (YouTube). Retrieved 4 March 2020. "Gartell Light Railway web site"...
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    August 2016. Industrial Railway Society 1983, p. 66, 101 & 142. Industrial Railway Society 1983, p. 84 & 138. "Chasewater Light Railway and Museum Company"...
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    narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom. Trains portal British narrow-gauge railways The Great Little Trains of Wales Heritage railway 2 ft gauge railroads...
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    Central Railway (1976) Company Limited applied to the College of Arms as the successors to British Transport Commission (Loughborough to Birstall Light Railway)...
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  • Ashover Light Railway Society. All are 2 ft (610 mm), although some were built/rebuilt to different gauges. "Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway". Peak...
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    1982–1991) 1983: Organist, St Andrew’s Church, Kegworth 1980: Engineman, Cadeby Steam Centre Henderson, RJ (1981). A History of King's College Choir School...
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    Skegness (section Railway)
    about historical farming life. A volunteer-run heritage railway, the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, moved to Skegness in 1990 and opened to fare-paying...
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    tourist attraction, Earth Centre, opened on the nearby site of the former Cadeby Main Colliery. It closed in 2005 after it failed to attract the expected...
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    line to Horncastle, which included Woodhall Spa railway station, was opened on 11 August 1855. The railways brought increasing popularity, and an elegant...
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    various coalfields began strike action. In Yorkshire, miners at Manvers,: 86  Cadeby,: 66  Silverwood,: 66  Kiveton Park: 66  and Yorkshire Main: 218  were on...
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    The burgesses' records recall the expenses of the occasion To Robert of Cadeby for having his counsel 2 shillings On Friday before the Lords coming - bread...
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    about two miles north east. The collieries were connected by a private railway. Between 1920 and 1934, the manager of the coke-oven, washery and brickworks...
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  • capsize under bridge, in Ireland 91 Cadeby Main pit disaster 1912 (9 July) Two underground coal mine explosions at Cadeby, South Yorkshire 90 Lewisham rail...
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  • Seville with a cargo of coal and coke collided early morning with cargo ship Cadeby (flag unknown) in the mouth of the Humber. The vessel was struck near amidships...
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  • England, retrieved 1 February 2016 Historic England, "Church of St John, Cadeby (1151529)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 February 2016...
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    the junction of the river with the Don was adjacent to the railway sidings of the Cadeby Main colliery, but by 1930 it had been moved further upstream...
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    Birley Collieries (category Railway accidents and incidents in Yorkshire)
    England. They were connected to the railway system by a branch line from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Woodhouse East Junction, about...
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  • Nunnery Colliery (category Railway accidents and incidents in Yorkshire)
    Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway East of Sheffield by Roger Milnes. "Forward" – The journal of the Great Central Railway Society, No.16, July 1984....
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  • Kilnhurst Colliery and so to the main line railway (The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Sheffield to Doncaster line). Some small buildings...
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  • dependents from similar colliery disasters, such as £1,000 donated to the Cadeby appeal in 1912, and £500 to the Senghenydd relief fund in 1913. A memorial...
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