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                                                                                                                                                                  NEW FEATURE - UK RAILTOUR LISTS 2012  Railtours


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                                                                                                                                                                  _Above:  Unbranded green-liveried GBRf Class 66/7 No 66738 leads Medite-liveried Class 66/7 No 66709 Joseph Arnold Davies past Burton-on-Trent on 23 February 2012 powering train 4V94, the 09.52 Doncaster Down Decoy (GBRf) to Portbury Automotive Terminal. The train is formed of a rake of hopper wagons used for carrying biomass on the trains return journey to Drax Power Station.
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                                                                                                                                                                  Welcome to the updated Railway Centre.Com website. The only totally free on-line news service, updated daily. Following transfer from our old servers to our new site earlier in the year, retaining a number of the original features, including our highly popular 'Picture of the Day', we are now getting over 10,000 hits per day, with the most popular pages being the up to date news and our Picture of the Day. By popular demand, and to provide as much information free of charge to fellow enthusiasts as possible, we will soon be adding railtour information to the site, detailing forthcoming tours and traction information as well as providing a direct link to tour operators, to allow quick and trouble free bookings. Our recent site changes now allow us to upload news items from a handheld smartphone or iPad and is thus less time consuming to maintain, it also allows us to upload last minute changes and follow important news stories.
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