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    Oct 15, 2018 4 minutes

    HISTORICAL CAPTION CORRECTIONS

    IN the interests of historical accuracy, I would like to offer the following amendments to a couple of captions in recent supplements sent out with Rail Express.

    In the ‘Blue & Grey Years’ (October issue), I thought the northbound ‘Deltic’ with the 08.00 King’s Cross to Edinburgh at Newcastle captioned as being opposite a Class 40 on a train to East Anglia seemed wrong. Factors such as the direction the Class 40 was pointing (yes, I know it could have been going via the High Level Bridge), that there were no East Anglia-bound trains anywhere near the appropriate

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