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A train in the snow near Auchterhouse in 1947.
Blizzard conditions and heavy snow wreaked havoc across Tayside and Fife last week but things were far worse in 1947. Gayle Ritchie looks back at the most brutal winter since the mid-19th century.
However, the recent whiteout was nothing compared with the brutal winter of 1947, which meteorologists and climatologists claim was a “standout year” for the UK.
A long succession of snowstorms between late January and mid-March made that winter the snowiest since the mid-19th century.
In some places, the army was called in to free roads and railways of snowdrifts that were up to seven metres deep. ....

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