Date: 21/01/2012

THE organisers of “Britain’s biggest rail celebration” say they are expecting many thousands of people to attend the summer event at York’s National Railway Museum. Railfest 2012 will see an outdoor space the size of 11 football pitches to the back of Station Hall filled with locomotives from the museum’s collection and from around the country. The nine-day festival, which starts on June 2 and is being presented as part of the York 800 celebrations, will bring together more than 30 record-breaking locomotives which have made their mark on rail history.

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THE organisers of Britains biggest rail celebration say they are expecting many thousands of people to attend the summer event at Yorks

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