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Podcast: Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
Episode: September 7th - UK's great heritage railways
Description: My travel podcast is rather different today, I'm on the West Somerset Railway, travelling from Watchet to Dunster – one of the UK's many great heritage railways.A vintage steam locomotive is hauling British Rail carriages from the 1960s, all very retro and scenic, but I am using it to get from A to B – so much more relaxing than the bus.I hope that the tantalising gap of a few miles between the Great Western main line at Taunton and the start of the WSR at Bishops Lydeard can be closed – allowing Minehead and th...