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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Paul Routledge

Steam trains under threat due to shortage of coal as war in Ukraine halts imports

At heart, we are all railway ­children. The hiss of steam, the smell of hot oil and smoke from the engine evoke ­memories of a bygone age.

The 1970 film classic The Railway Children starring vintage trains, and Jenny Agutter, brings a tear to many an eye every Christmas. And a new version, again with Jenny Agutter, comes to a cinema near you in July.

But the heritage Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, where the legend was born, is under threat from a desperate shortage of coal for the engines.

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