Nick Hodges raises a very valid point in his letter in issue 237. Diesel locomotives have to be attached to steam-hauled trains for the following purposes: 1: To provide electric heating to the train. 2:
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Category: Letters
Keeping rail heritage alive on the Flitch Way
I wonder if you are aware of the carriage that stands at the platform at Rayne on the disused Bishop’s Stortford to Braintree branch? Since 2014 this Mk.2 carriage has been home to a small
Read moreIs this the youngest-ever crew?
Page 14 of Heritage Railway issue 235 shows a young locomotive crew with a combined age of 43 years on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway, querying if this is the youngest crew ever. On October
Read moreMallard should have been restored ahead of Flying Scotsman
Issue 233 of Heritage Railway was a real treat – and not least the Platform section. Three very noticeable aspects of railway preservation became very obvious from the letters. First was the issue regarding the
Read moreBring back Russell!
Eighty years ago, the old Welsh Highland Railway closed. Rebuilding the line has been a tremendous achievement, however, there is one thing missing. The iconic locomotive Russell from the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, the only
Read moreThe day Galtee More derailed at Grantham
The reference to LNER A3 No. 60049 Galtee More in Geoff Courtney’s railwayana column in issue 232 brought back to me memories of the Pacific in about 1959, when I was a fireman at King’s
Read moreThe last of the Jubilees
I was a student in Leeds in the mid-1960s, and read with great interest your account of the final months of the Jubilee class in BR operation. However, let me fill in a couple of
Read more‘Scottish’ Class 31 on trials at ‘The Plant’ in Doncaster
As an enthusiastic trainspotter during the BR steam/diesel ‘crossover’ era of the late 1950s and early 1960s, I was interested to read Geoff Courtney’s article in last month’s issue about the little-publicised evaluation trials of
Read moreNRM’s ‘giveaways’ are going to good homes
EYEBROWS have been raised at the latest decision by the National Railway Museum to give one of its star exhibits, GWR heavy freight locomotive No. 2818, to Swindon Borough Council’s STEAM museum, as reported in
Read moreNot always ‘fond memories’ of hop-picking in the 1950s
The article by Geoff Courtney in last month’s issue on the Kent & East Sussex Railway’s hop-pickers’ gala in September brought back memories of when I went down to Kent for many years as a
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