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Category: Letters

Restore the last 306 to working order

25th June 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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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MP should get real over Devon coast avoiding line

28th May 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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.

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Tougher penalties needed for bridge strike drivers

1st May 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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

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Picture only fit for the bin?

1st May 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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

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Use Science Museum land for electric museum

25th April 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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.

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I owned one of the Metropolitan Railway original bronze nameplates

3rd April 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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

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Birkenhead stocks steam memories

3rd April 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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

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Help restore Balmoral, Bristol Channel steam’s missing link

6th March 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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

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Barry scrapyard led the steam world – but what about coaches?

6th March 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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

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My personal bus route…

1st March 2018 Sam Hewitt Letters

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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