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    TO CATCH THE TRAIN, FIRST CATCH THE WIND!

    Feb 03, 2020 5 minutes
    TORKEL LARSEN

    When, after renovation in March 2016, the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust opened the Spurn Lighthouse in Yorkshire, the idea of creating a replica ‘sail bogie’ or ‘landship’ was mooted.

    The Spurn military railway was constructed during the First World War in order to enable the fortification of the Green Battery on Spurn Point and the Godwin Battery at Kilnsea. After 1919, the line saw considerably less use, and that is when local residents saw their opportunity.

    The first mention of this unusual means of transport on the Spurn Point military railway was reported in the Hull Daily Mail, dated October 5, 1922. It would appear that two local residents of Kilnsea – a Mr Charles Hailes and Mr Edwin Hodgson – struck upon the idea when they needed to

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