Perfect timing at Ely!
I wasn’t at all sure about using that picture of the crashed RAS Dakota in the July ‘Comment’ as it was only peripherally related to railways. However, I had already written a ‘Comment’ about railway coastal shipping services so it did not seem too big a risk, and the railways were instrumental in establishing internal passenger air services.
Mike Lamport clearly enjoyed the ‘Comment’ with appropriate sound effects. Says Mike, “I thought that you would be amused to know that as I was reading your ‘Comment’ piece in the July , regarding the sadly long lost Railway Air Services, that