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🚂 Visitors to Gloucester Station can now view a detailed model railway diorama in the waiting room, showing the station across eras from the steam age of the 1880s to the present day, marking 200 years of rail travel. Unveiled by the Mayor of #Gloucester, the display was created by the Gloucester Model Railway Club with a £1,000 grant from Great Western Railway’s Customer and Community Improvement Fund. It took 12 volunteers around a year to complete and includes detailed scenes of station life such as passengers, signage, milk churns from the dairy train era and a roaming cat, plus a mirror effect that creates the illusion of an extended railway line through time. Organisers say it celebrates local railway heritage and community involvement, with the club hoping to encourage people of all ages to take up model making, while station staff describe it as a nostalgic feature for passengers. https://news.gwr.com/news/gloucester-station-model-brings-railway-history-to-life

Canary Media | My city’s two wind turbines are shutting down. Here's what we're losing. by Sarah Shemkus The wind turbines arrived in Gloucester at the same time I did. My husband and I moved into a cheap third-floor apartment in the small coastal city in northern Massachusetts in November 2012, just as cranes were assembling the imposing white towers right next to the highway that ushered us into town. I loved them… Read more: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/wind/my-citys-wind-turbines-shutting-down #gloucester #massachusetts