In far-flung Transylvania,
@joshi
bumped into some Dispatch-reading Brummies in a pub.
They invited him to come and see what they were doing there: helping to rebuild an old railway which used to lead from Sibiu to Sighișoara, a picturesque town once inhabited by Vlad Dracul,…
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"Late last night I was sitting in a Scottish-themed pub on the edge of Sibiu’s main square when I met a group of men drinking at the next table. When they said that most of them were West Midlanders, I started telling them about The Dispatch, a new publication I had helped to…
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The rebuilt railway is designed to bring more income from tourism into a beautiful but poor valley near the stunning city of Sibiu. And the Brummies are volunteering their holidays to make it happen.
"That's the whole point of railways, they are a social benefit,” one of them…
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This is Gary Timmins. His 41-year career at Jaguar Land Rover began in 1979 at Garrison Street, where he was a welder on the 88-inch chassis line. He took voluntary redundancy a few years ago and now does things like this.
“Rolling hills, peeing down with rain, I feel like it's…
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Read
@joshi
's story in today's Dispatch: The Brummie railwaymen of Transylvania.
As one reader has commented: "What a jewel of a piece. Where else, in the otherwise highly commercialised and largely London-centric (or internationally owned) media would you find such an…
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