Stop confusing trains with locomotives

THE photograph, (“Chuffed to witness loco stunt for Cruise movie”, August 24) taken at Stoney Middleton quarry, will have disappointed many film fans.

From earlier reports in the Derby Telegraph we had been led to believe that “a train” would plunge into the quarry. Indeed, the report accompanying the photograph refers to “a steam train”. Where then are the carriages, or the wagons, that would have formed a train? They seem to have been left behind!

Your headline, however, is correct in referring to “a loco”. The photo shows a locomotive, or engine, and not a train.

Incidentally, an earlier report referred to “the coal-carrying tender”. A locomotive’s tender also, of course, carries the water supply to make the steam.

Michael Smith, Allestree