Greywood Miniature Railway 1956

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Walton on Thames, Surrey.

The Greywood Miniature Railway has been built as a private garden railway at the home of John Samuel. It has six stations and 15 x 7.25 gauge locomotives. Shots from miniature train along tracks M/S man in miniature signal box, pulls levers. M/S engine being oiled...

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Cataloguer:
Margaret
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1214
Sort Number:
CP 090
Time in/Out:
01:46:00:00 / 01:49:08:00
Canister:
CP 090
Film ID:
53.21
Issue Date:
17/09/1956

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