Letters intended for publication should ideally add extra detail to our articles (or offer corrections of course!) and not be too long, consistent with the detail they offer. As always, we are sorry that space and time prevent us from printing them all or sending personal replies. ED.
Gramlinia
The ‘56XX’ Class locomotive shown on the front cover of our October issue is No.6662 and not as indicated in the caption. The Al Pacific featured on p580 in the ‘Second Deliveries’ colour feature should be identified as No.60149 Amadis. Apologies for these transcription errors.
Ed.
Under the Clock at Snow Hill
Unfortunately the references and bibliograpjy for this article became omitted during the transfer between computer systems, for which apologies are due to the author. The author Nicholas Daunt has offered to provide them for any reader who would like them by contacting him on nickdaunt@gmail.com
Ed.
The Euston Arch
A mid-Victorian Chairman of the Great Northern Railway was reputed to have commented that there was no money in stations. True enough, GNR stations were generally of more austere design than say contemporary Midland Railway ones. This attitude persisted among some senior railway managers well into our own time and Sir Peter Parker had an uphill task in successfully changing attitudes. As well as the Railway Heritage Trust, established in 1984, Sir Peter supported the infant Best Restored Station Competition, now fully fledged and widely regarded in the industry as the National Railway Heritage Awards; indeed he presented the awards for its first four years and his successors as Chairman of BR and its successors have been pleased to follow suit. It has become abundantly clear over the past few decades that the travelling public does appreciate decent railway stations: there is ‘money in them’!
In his perceptive article on the fate of the old Euston station (August) Geoffrey
