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  "title": "The Bitton Railway Order 2002",
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  "long_title": "The Order authorises the Avon Valley Railway Heritage Trust to construct, maintain and operate a railway (380 metres in length) in the areas of the Councils of South Gloucestershire and of Bath and North East Somerset consisting of an extension of the railway authorised by the Bitton Light Railway Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/134). The railway will be laid entirely on part of the trackbed of the former Bath to Bristol line.",
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