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The
West Somerset Railway is Britain's longest, and arguably
its most picturesque, heritage steam railway.
It
runs for twenty miles from Bishops Lydeard, just outside
the county town of Taunton, to the seaside holiday
resort
of Minehead. Closed by British Railways in 1971, it was
gradually restored and reopened in stages over a
number
of
years. It is run largely by volunteers, supporting a
handful of paid staff. After a struggle against all
financial odds in
the
early 1980s, the line has blossomed into one of the West
Country's leading tourist attractions and one of
the
country's
most successful heritage railways.
Text
courtesy of the West
Somerset Railway Association
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