1998: The railway fans driving Europe's last commuter steam train

It's the ultimate holiday for train enthusiasts and in 1998 railway fans from the UK were in Poland helping to keep Europe's last remaining scheduled steam train service working. A British man had set up holidays on the Wolsztyn line for people with lifelong dreams of driving a steam train full of passengers.

Clip taken from News, originally broadcast on BBC One, 25 February 1998.

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