Corrections

Thank you very much for publishing my article on the recovery of Alice in SR476. Unfortunately you have got the build date of Irish Mail wrong – it should be 1903, not 1899 as stated. Paul Smith

Peter Greenwood is incorrect in saying that Sir Edmund Hillary was responsible for the “because it is there” quote relating to Mount Everest (SR476, Down Main). This was actually a reply given to a journalist in 1923 by George Mallory while he was on a tour of the United States, which covered the second Everest trip in 1922. Gordon Richards

I am not the Accountant and Company Secretary for the Great Central Railway, as reported in SR475. That role is fulfilled by Caroline Pollard. I’m the Project Manager. Lili Tabiner, Great Central Railway Apologies for the mix-up – Ed.

In my turf burners article, I mixed up two of the numbers for the three Barclay engines. In actuality, No. 1/LM43 is now Talyllyn Railway No. 7 Tom Rolt and No. 3/LM45 is ‘Shane’ at the Giant’s Causeway & Bushmills Railway in Northern Ireland. Another mistake was in the first photo caption – the Clonsast system is actually in Co. Offaly, not Kildare. It lies very close to a border which has allegedly been redrawn a few times over the years. Glen Murphy