AN historical author has put together a book telling the 70-year story of the Whittingham Hospital railway. Mark Cornwell of Higher Wheelton, begins his story in 1868 when a new county asylum was ...

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Although the railway closed half a century ago this is the first, in depth account and is given in an A4 size book, ‘The History of the Whittingham Hospital Railway’.