Rack Railways in Fiction
The Culdee Fell Railway is a fictional cog railway on the Island of Sodor in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry. Its operation, locomotives and history are at least in part based on the Snowdon Mountain Railway. It is featured in the book List of Railway Series Books.
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“O, let him pass. He hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer.”
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