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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Martin Fricker

Train-mad dad spends six years creating half-mile long light railway track at home

A train -mad dad spent six years and thousands of pounds building a half-mile long light railway track in his back garden.

Robert Holland, 64, painstakingly worked to create the line, which features a 100ft long tunnel, an engine shed and a turntable.

The funeral director’s obsession with locomotives began when he was a child growing up in Lincolnshire.

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