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Article: BOOKS: Colourful look at the narrow gauge.(Features)

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The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
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March 20, 2004
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NORMAN Johnston has been a railway enthusiast "for as long as I can remember".

He took this enthusiasm a stage further when, in 1992, he began writing on railways.

The Irish Narrow Gauge in Colour is the seventh book in which he had been author or coauthor.

Most of Ireland's narrow gauge network was closed down in the 1950s, long before preservation became a practical proposition in the country, which had relatively few active ...

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