Letters

A good friend of mine, railway photographer Peter Fitton, suggested I should send the attached photograph to you. While not one of my best, it was taken with a 7/6d (35p) plastic Kodak 127 camera. The date is uncertain but would be around 1959. The location is a Derby Works open day, and it was great fun…

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ThIS photograph of HS4000 Kestrel at Crewe Diesel Depot on the evening of Saturday, June 5, 1971, waiting movement to Cardiff Docks, may be of interest to readers. (RM July). The bogies, having been converted to 5ft gauge, were in wagons coupled to the locomotive. Mention is made in the feature that Brush Type 4s…

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I PASS this sign every day, just opposite Hampstead Heath station, and wonder if it is a unique survivor? Advertising the LNER route to Scotland, and as Nationalisation was 1948 it must be 70 years old, at least. Are there many other such survivors of the ‘Big Four’? Dr John Hurst London Read more Letters,…

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I WOULD like to respond to Lord Berkeley’s article ‘Multiple Aspects’ (RM January 2017) in which he scornfully accuses residents of Goring of NIMBYism, a general dislike of railways, and living in the past. I am a proud part of a group that is challenging Network Rail’s electrification programme in the Goring Gap, which we…

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IN MY trainspotting days, I regularly visited the sheds on a Sunday, starting at Hornsey, then Cricklewood, Neasden, Willesden and Old Oak. On one visit to Neasden in the summer of 1959 I took the enclosed photo of ‘4MT’ No. 80142. Somebody forgot to put the brake on the loco, which rolled through the rear…

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I was most interested in the article in the December issue about Trains Annual and Locospotters’ Annual. What immediately caught my eye were the two colour illustrations from the 1950 edition of Trains Annual, stated to be the first to include colour plates.  I was sure I recognised the plates from another publication which I received…

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I WAS very interested in John Vaughan’s letter (RM Nov, p60) regarding RPPR tours, as I was one of the many modern traction railfans who participated in them. They were always well organised and had interesting routes and destinations, and there was certainly a camaraderie among those who participated. I recall a visit to Consett…

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