Word: bluebelle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Britain's 17-mile Sheffield Park Branch Railway opened back in 1882, the Sussex countryside" through which it ran was so thickly strewn with wildflowers that passengers had only to reach out the window to pick bouquets of bluebells and primroses. But over the years, despite the railway...
It was enough to bring all the local sentimentalists out of the woods in full cry against unfeeling bureaucrats. The sentimentalists discovered a clause in Parliament's original authorizing law requiring the Bluebell line to operate not fewer than four trains a day, and it took another three years...