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The SSR certainly isn’t a hoax - the investigative journalist Duncan Campbell wrote about it extensively in the 1980’s in New Statesman magazine and his book War Plan UK. By the time “urbex” became a thing in the 2000’s, the locomotives had been dispersed but there were definite, 100%, cast iron plans to use steam loco’s in the event of a war in the years after mainline steam was scrapped in 1968.It’s a bit like the so-called hoax or conspiracy about BT cable tunnels and hardened phone exchanges under big cities. They exist - I’ve been in them.
The SSR certainly isn’t a hoax - the investigative journalist Duncan Campbell wrote about it extensively in the 1980’s in New Statesman magazine and his book War Plan UK. By the time “urbex” became a thing in the 2000’s, the locomotives had been dispersed but there were definite, 100%, cast iron plans to use steam loco’s in the event of a war in the years after mainline steam was scrapped in 1968.
It’s a bit like the so-called hoax or conspiracy about BT cable tunnels and hardened phone exchanges under big cities. They exist - I’ve been in them.
