Cancelling wartime weekends is akin to letting Putin win

I FEEL I must write about the apparent surrender of the Heritage Railway Association in recommending that our educational World War Two events are cancelled. This is just like giving Putin another victory, as they have allowed him to sway their thinking. I write as an ex-RAF regular airman, a survivor of theSecondWordWar(just), asteam enthusiast and multi-role reenactor.

We cannot allow outside influences to interfere with what we do. The loss of profits just as they are most needed is a serious thing in itself, plus this year would most likely have been a bumper one, with people actively looking for events. All they had to do (and a few are) was remove the words ‘war weekend’ and rebrand as 1940s events – and then send a percentage of the profits to a Ukraine charity. This is positive action, not negative.

The people who made this negative decision have not even thought, it would seem, about the thousands of pounds spent by private individuals to support the railway events or