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  • MAROONED!

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    In the build-up to our forthcoming EXTON PARK REVIVAL event on 27th May 2013 which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the closure of ironstone quarrying in Rutland, the engineering team have undertaken to repaint DE5, the Janus locomotive which once worked over the quarry system. When the development team began work on the locomotive yard…

  • Development update –

    The project to rebuild the loco yard is on the point of starting to replace track onto the site. This week the last load bearing beam had its shuttering removed to reveal the rows of level and aligned retained bolt studs that will secure the bed rails. Work to level the inert fill over the…

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