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WWII rescue train trip recreated (UK)

A train carrying evacuees who escaped the Holocaust has been met in the UK by the man who arranged their rescue ahead of the outbreak of World War II.

Sir Nicholas Winton, 100, was at London's Liverpool Street station to welcome passengers at the end of their steam train journey from Prague.

It marks the 70th anniversary of trains organised by Sir Nicholas that carried 669 mostly Jewish children to the UK.

Twenty-two of the original evacuees took part in the anniversary journey.
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