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Underground car delivered to EOR

LONDON Underground has donated a 1959 Tube Stock driving motor car to the Epping Ongar Railway. DM No. 1031 arrived at North Weald by road on May 14, just missing the London Transport celebrations that were hosted by the EOR the previous weekend.

Although the car has been stored outside for some 17 years at the

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