Coal, preservation and wokery
THE recent contributions in issues 289 and 290 concerning the current situation regarding the use of coal on our heritage railways following COP26 from Hugh Dougherty and David Smith highlight the peril that our movement is currently in following the advance of the so-called ‘green lobby’.
The simple fact is that as regards to the loss of our domestic coal supplies, the preservation movement did not react with the threat of this loss with sufficient vigour at an early enough stage. In short, we have simply been
