I don’t think that Backtrack has every really gone in for the ‘mission statement’ approach to its business. We deliver what it says on the cover – ‘The History of Britain’s Railways’ – and largely leave it at that. It is the determination of what that is which is worth considering from time to time and a handy starting point is to revisit what our founder Nigel Trevena pitched as what might pass as BT’s one and only ‘mission statement’ to date in its first production issue in the spring of 1987, the following being the main policies for its
