Readers’ Platform
New-builds and complex restorations – is it all a bit late?
THE current feverish activity in creating a dozen or so‘new-builds’at vast expense, as well as numerous re-builds of existing steam locomotives, begs the question: ‘Is it all too late?’
The railway is expanding and progressing fast with large numbers of new trains and rolling stock coming on stream in the period to 2023.
The frequency of trains is increasing, made possible
