Woodhead demonstration
Woodhead demonstration
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Going home - the foot soldiers head back down the Longdendale Trail.
On this day in 1939, 87 years ago, Botanic Garden Station closed permanently to passengers having previously succumbed to economies during the First World War.
Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.
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