Letters

Going forward from Cromer

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Sam Hewitt

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25th August 2016

August 10 saw the heritage railway sector expand its ‘territory’ still further, with the running of the first North Norfolk Railway dining train from Sheringham over Network Rail’s Bittern Line to Cromer. If you take into account the mountain of red tape that the heritage line’s directors had to cut through just to get the…
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Seeing the light

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13th July 2016

LEICESTERSHIRE County Council’s magnificent and visionary gesture of buying a million shares in the Great Central Railway is not just an endorsement of the success of Britain’s only double-track heritage trunk railway, but of the entire movement. This magazine has said for many years that the GCR’s position in central England makes it a perfect…
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We need to know!

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15th June 2016

Eleven out of 10 must go to Mark Carne, Phil Verster, Sir Peter Hendy and especially Scottish transport minister, Derek Mackay, for their intervention at one minute to midnight to make Flying Scotsman’s long-planned trips over the new Borders Railway and the Fife Circle in May happen. However, minus several million to Network Rail for…
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