A magazine for a railway star!
AS a regular reader, I just love your features and opinions on our railway heritage.
Recently I journeyed on the train to London to attend a film fair there and your excellent magazine kept me company during the ride down.
When I got there, I was fortunate enough to meet the wonderful actress whom your readers may know – Sally Thomsett, who starred as Phyllis in the 1970 film adaptation of E Nesbit’s book, The Railway Children, alongside Jenny Agutter and, of course, the late Bernard Cribbins, filmed – again, a fact I am sure your readers will know – on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. And who can forget the ending, when the cast are lined up looking directly at camera!
Such lovely memories that Sally told me of those long-gone days. I managed to bag this picture which shows the two of us and the real star of the piece – Heritage Railway magazine – which I gave to her afterwards.
She also signed this photograph from The Railway Children for your offices with an appropriate dedication. I hope you have space for this on one of your office walls.
Mark Dabbs, Walsall, West Midlands