Letters
Reconvert electric locomotive back to steam
2 September 2010
THE announcement in Heritage Railway issue 140 that former Llechwedd Slate Caverns resident The Coalition is merely to be conserved in current condition as a static exhibit, while plans have been laid to restore the Festiniog Railway's 'Large England' Welsh Pony to working order shows that there are still serious flaws in the thinking of the narrow gauge railway preservation movement over six decades after moves began to establish it in earnest.
Pilling Pig guards old sty
2 September 2010.
The Garstang and Knot-End Railway Company took five and a half years to build a seven-mile single-track line from Garstang only as far as Pilling, opening on 5 December 1870, running with a single locomotive.
The true record that Tornado broke
5 August 2010.
YOUR headline in issue 139 'Tornado breaks Shap record' and the connections made with the 1995 Shap trials are a little misleading.
The North Yorkshire Moors early birds
5 August 2010.
YOUR 60 Years of Preservation article has been fascinating reading; but due to the subject covering so many preserved railways and societies, it is inevitable some errors may creep in.
When Standard 3MTs were replaced by DMUs
8 July 2010.
Further to the article 'Tank Gang' in issue 137 concerning the green-painted BR Standard 3MT 2-6-2T of the 82000 series, I enclose a photograph of No 82020 in such livery, which I took at Bidston MPD (6F) coaling plant in April 1959.
Clamp down on scrapyards to stop thefts
8 July 2010.
I have read with growing alarm and frustration about theft of valuable parts from railway sites.
Grant aid made Welsh Highland difference
10 June 2010.
With reference to Martin Sutcliffe’s letter in Heritage Railway 137. I sympathise with Martin Sutcliffe’s viewpoint, that without the Welsh Highland Railway (1964) Company’s efforts there would have been no Welsh Highland to rebuild.
Sutherland and that 'Abercorn' rerun
10 June 2010.
With the greatest respect to Mr Davis, I cannot understand his ‘gripe’, about the article on pages 10 and 11 of issue 130, particularly as as early as the first paragraph of the article outlines the coincidence which allows the comparison to be made.
Tribute to Middy's Gareth
13 May 2010.
WE at the Mid-Suffolk are having to come to terms with the tragic death of Gareth Oates. He was an 18-year-old volunteer who lost his life on the railway at Marston near Huddersfield on 2 March.
Railwayana buyer's premium 'excessive'
13 May 2010.
IT IS a long time ago that I bought or sold anything at auction, but I have seen references in Heritage Railway that now puzzle me to recent sales of railway items having as much as 17½ per cent buyer’s premium.
Current Issue: 2 Sept 2010
• Sutherland BR maroon option
• Granite traffic 'may fund GCR bridge'
• Lord Nelson 'off main line until 2018'
• Royal Deeside first steam
• T9 hauls first trains
• LYD in L&B 'comeback'
• Idridgehay first steam
• WIN a two-night Settle & Carlisle break
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