‘Starving’ wartime schoolboy reunited with his potato railway train at LCLR
Jul 30, 2019
2 minutes
By Robin Jones
LCLR
AN 88-year-old pensioner who rode on one of Lincolnshire’s legendary potato farm railways as a 12-year-old schoolboy has been reunited with one of ‘his’ trains.
In the school holidays in 1942/43, Peter Jarvis of Nottingham was drafted into the Lincolnshire Fens to pick potatoes for the wartime food campaign – but the cloud held a big silver lining for him.
Peter was already
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