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coming into full production and their branch lines becoming part of the SYJR. This produced a net revenue for the SYJR of £81,000 – equal to about £5.3 million in 2020 prices, an astonishing figure for a line (excluding sidings) of just under 30 miles (48 km). By the end of 1929, capital
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