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Sidetracked: Woburn Sands Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/11/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for a key safe.This cache is close busy roads so take care with children and animals.

Woburn Sands station is part of the Marston Vale Railway.It is a small rural railway running through the heart of the beautiful Marston Vale countryside between Bedford and Bletchley.
The line is one of the two surviving passenger carrying sections of the "Varsity Line" between Oxford and Cambridge.Formely the line linked the two universities.
The line was opened in 1845.Apart from a small length of single track at both ends the line is double tracked,and is not electrified.With a line speed of 60mph you can really enjoy the pleasant view as it passes through Marston Vale.
It was officially designated a Community Railway in November 2006.Community Railways adopt a different approach to managing a less well-used rail route in the UK,by encouraging local people to use and become involved in their railway.
Until 2004 the line was controlled by staffed signal boxes located at various stations,but now the entire line is now controlled from one signalling centre at Ridgmont.
Woburn Sands had until recently a black and white (mustard at the moment i think) cottage station building.It is one of the four of the same design unique to this line.Two of the others are at Fenny Stratford and Millbrook.
Woburn Sands recently lost its victorian signal box to the development and modernisation of the line.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

lbh'ir orra jnearq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)