Letters

I WAS very interested in Gary Boyd-Hope’s article on the IE 071 class locos. Very well written and a mine of information. The Yugoslavian railway locos (Jugoslavenske Željeznice), now running in Serbia, mentioned on page 34, were indeed used regularly in the early years of the 21st century. Many years ago, the ‘Stamboul Express’, run by…

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THANK you for a most interesting article on Drax Power station (RM August). I well remember it being built and, of course, the famous BBC Blue Peter programme with presenter John Noakes climbing to the top of what was then Britain’s largest chimney. In September 1995, Drax held an open weekend, and as part of…

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I WAS fascinated by the photograph of the naming ceremony for No. 92220 Evening Star (RM June, p7). At that time I was serving an engineering apprenticeship at Swindon Works, and witnessed the naming of the locomotive, from the furthest track of the 100-ton crane visible in your photo. My photo was taken just after the…

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I WONDER whether I am the only old doddering buffer to become heartily tired of the rampant hysteria over Flying Scotsman; after all it has but one claim to fame – (well-deserved and honourable that it is) – simply because it was the first steam locomotive to be accurately timed in reaching 100mph. Flying Scotsman…

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I WAS interested to see a picture of the Tralee train station shed (RM, April 2016, p39), without the track in the main part of the shed. My interest in Tralee station is that in August 1899 my paternal grandparents walked down the platform on their honeymoon. My wife and I were able to walk…

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AS PART of the programme to celebrate the opening of the newly refurbished Spurn Lighthouse in Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT) is hoping to build a replica ‘Spurn sail bogie’. This unusual type of transport was used on the Spurn military railway between the two wars. To enable this to happen, the YWT is…

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