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Category: Letters

Reasons why The Great Bear failed

13th February 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

I note the plaintive appeal from D Martin in Platform, issue 248, for the reincarnation of The Great Bear. This is not the first time this sentiment has been aired in the pages of Heritage

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Norman Preedy: – a real character and a local legend

13th February 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

With reference to Geoff Courtney’s obituary of Norman Preedy in the last issue, may I add my thoughts on someone who was a great friend and a superb and enthusiastic railway photographer. Norman was a

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Can we also save Midland Railway steam railmotor?

14th January 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

I have been reading, with interest, the article in Heritage Railway issue 248, about the restoration of the NER petrol-railcar at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. It reminded me of the sad state

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Should we re-create The Great Bear?

14th January 2019 Nigel Devereux Letters

Over the past few years the Great Western Society has made great strides to close the missing gaps with the new build 4-6-0 Grange, 4-6-0 Saint and the 4-6-0 County and of course the 2-8-0

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Eardington is lighting the way

10th December 2018 Nigel Devereux Letters

I am a volunteer lampman at Eardington station on the Severn Valley Railway, where we have set up a small lamp room dedicated to the repair, restoration and display of railway lamps from the pre-electric

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GWR memories in a garage in the 1950s

12th November 2018 Nigel Devereux Letters

The article by Geoff Courtney in issue 244 of nameplate Knight of the Thistle from GWR Star class No. 4012 coming up for auction reminded me that this was one of several nameplates hanging for

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Safety and security must come first

21st September 2018 Nigel Devereux Letters

During my two decades in railway journalism, conflicts between the requirements of rails and the ambitions of cyclepath promoters have often been vexed issues, the latest manifestation being the controversy over the use of the

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Smell the coffee, ladies!

17th September 2018 Nigel Devereux Letters

Just what world do the likes of Amber Rudd MP and Sally Ann Hart live in? For a council tourism chief to claim that extending the Kent & East Sussex Railway into Robertsbridge will have

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A different train of thought

20th August 2018 Nigel Devereux Letters

As president of the Halstead & District Local History Society, I would like to respond to Ian McKenzie’s strong criticism in last month’s issue of the wording ‘train station’ – rather than ‘railway station’ –

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Midland 0-4-4T information required

23rd July 2018 Nigel Devereux Letters

I was given the enclosed postcard during my travels for work but regrettably cannot remember any detail. It is a Midland Railway 1262 class 0-4-4T built by Neilson in 1876 and withdrawn in 1927, but

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