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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                -on9 in Holland Tattler t in Glasgow during world War ii. Gines on display were built in the eur if Berlin and Kassel spelled Cassel to Glasgow Scotland Manchester just Edam. A Are freight cars passenger cars rollers from the bygone Era All in i and looking impatient like they Are a when they can race once again museum located at 6 Joan Van old in utrecht is open year round but n. During the Winter months but sex ours to 5 during the Wanner  museum opens at t . And go saturdays the doors open at 10 . It s closed mondays easter Whitsun Christ Mas and new years. Entrance costs one Guilder approximately $1.00 for an adult youngsters from one to is years old Are admitted for half Price. Holland s railway museum la just one of Many to be enjoyed in Europe. Others also Worth a visit include the famed Swiss House of transport and communication at Lucerne Switzerland the German transport museum in Numberg and the British National railway museum York North Road station Darlington eng land. For information on other rail museums in other countries write to the National tourist office of the country you intend to visit. Longmoor 1,000th British locomotive ferried to Europe after a Day. D Day locomotives the Railroad siding alongside the dutch depot that houses relics and paraphernalia from the Days of steam also features an historical locomotive built in the unite kingdom during world War  after a Day locomotives were built it Britain for use by the Allied armies and ferried to France according to Railroad historians. On May 9, ims the 1,000th British built engine crossed the English Channel and the Longmoor with its commemorative plaque is displayed along with the other locomotives and antique cars that Rode the rails that chugged along european rail routes. The locomotives were ferried across the Channel from Southampton to Cherbourg aboard converted tank Landing Craft As the Allied Campaign made inroads from the beachhead London & Northeast Ern railway Type train ferries named the Iris and the Daffodil were put into use and operated Between Southampton and Dieppe. The wording on the poster displayed on the former train station near the Long Moor noted that when the Channel ports were captured the Shorter Dover to Calais route was used by the Southern railway train ferries Hampton Twickenham and Shepperton. This method of transportation was utilized until the end of the Campaign and the subsequent occupation of Ger Many. It was on this route that the 1.000th Loco motive arrived on the continent according to museum officials. This Loco was the Longmoor it was named and bore the commemorative plaque Longmoor after the Home of the transportation troops in the United kingdom. Be retired steam engines Are on display at Holland s Spoo sum us. June 4, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 15  
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