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    Oct 05, 2020 4 minutes

    Send your letters to: The Railway Magazine, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR. email: railway@mortons.co.uk

    NB. Publication of a letter does not imply that the Editor or staff of The Railway Magazine necessarily agree with its contents.

    Unfulfilled projects go back 70-plus years

    THE comments in your editorial (RM Sept) about the plethora of unfulfilled projects over the last 20 years only reflects what seems to have been a constant issue over the last 70 years.

    With the extra time afforded me by the current lock-down regulations, I have been looking through The RM since 1949, (the year of my birth) and I have currently reached 1959.

    The pages are just full of Government announcements

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