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Category: Letters

Last days of the East Kent Railway

9th April 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters, Steam

I was at boarding school at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate in 1951. As a railway enthusiast I was delighted to be in a house whose housemaster had a full bound set of The Railway Magazine

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Our steam odyssey in 1967

9th April 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters, Steam

I was interested to read the article by Trevor Gregg about his 1967 camping coach holiday, in issue 251. A friend and I purchased a week’s railrover ticket for the princely sum of £18 and

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Don’t ruin wonderful Midsomer Norton station

9th April 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters

I had to look twice at the date of the latest issue of Heritage Railway (No. 250 – congratulations), as I thought the article on page 35, about Midsomer Norton must have been an April

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Allan ‘did not design Crewe-type’ engines: there’s more to the story

11th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters, Network, Steam

I enjoyed reading issue 250 of Heritage Railway and was delighted to find an interesting article by Brian Sharpe regarding 1840s locomotive engineers. As a professional railway historian studying and writing about the period 1830-50,

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Steam at St Margarets in the Fifties

11th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters, Network, News, Steam

In issue 249, I enjoyed Gavin Morrison’s retro look at Holbeck shed’s last years of service in the 1960s. My memories of this atmospheric Midland Railway ‘Cathedral of Steam’ are from a decade or so

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Searching for lost NER network tile maps

11th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters, Network, Steam

I have been conducting research regarding lost NER network tile maps, which are basically of three types, and am trying to ascertain whether readers of Heritage Railway are aware of the existence of an updated

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Stop riveting boilers and run steam on vegetable oils

11th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters, Network, Steam

AS we look forward to the future of our railway, yet another year has gone by. I feel there are challenges looming on the horizon for us all, as the public, local authorities and politicians

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Reasons why The Great Bear failed

13th February 2019 Sam Hewitt 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 Sam Hewitt 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 Sam Hewitt 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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