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A64 rides again All aboard! Train driver David Oakley is ready and waiting on the Plains Museum’s historic coal-fired locomotive. The train, a year short of its 150th birthday, is back on the tracks for the first time since 2016. FIND OUT MORE, PAGE 2 Holiday Crosswo rd
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