REFERENCE the article in issue 241 on page 13 about Class 306s: firstly the unit number should read No. 017 not 107. Originally they were only used as far as Gidea Park, where many services
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Category: Letters
MP should get real over Devon coast avoiding line
Martin McGinty makes the point (issue 240) that Sarah Woolaston MP lacks understanding of Devon and Cornwall’s need for a second railway line using the Okehampton/Plymouth route. He suggests that she needs to wake up.
Read moreTougher penalties needed for bridge strike drivers
AS the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s Ian Crowder pointed out in HR issue238 when referring to damage to the Station Road overbridge at Broadway, the widespread menace of bridge strikes needs to be tackled. Apart from
Read morePicture only fit for the bin?
I was interested to see the picture in Platform, issue 238, of the Christmas card submitted by Heritage Railway reader Mike Sanderson, depicting D49 4-4-0 No. 246 Morayshire – but with a non-matching extra GWR
Read moreUse Science Museum land for electric museum
I live in Wroughton and a few weeks ago I attended an exhibition put on by the Science Museum to advertise its intentions to build a new building at the Wroughton Airfield site at last.
Read moreI owned one of the Metropolitan Railway original bronze nameplates
I have been following the articles in Geoff Courtney’s railwayana column and the letters pages concerning the debate about whether the original bronze nameplates on the Metropolitan Railway Bo-Bo electric locomotives were removed for melting
Read moreBirkenhead stocks steam memories
In issue 237 in Off The Shelf there is a brief review of a book, Locomotives and Railways of The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. I have not seen or read the book, but the
Read moreHelp restore Balmoral, Bristol Channel steam’s missing link
As A Bristolian brought up in the postwar era, I was bequeathed the dual delights of steam on the BR Western Region and the steamers of the White Funnel Fleet care of P&A Campbell. Even
Read moreBarry scrapyard led the steam world – but what about coaches?
I was glad to read the story of the preservation of No. 43924. I recall, as a young member of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, spending a day scraping grease and dirt from the
Read moreMy personal bus route…
I was astonished to see the article by Geoff Courtney in issue 235 about the photograph of the RT reproduced from my book London’s Classic Buses in Black and White. I enjoyed compiling the book
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