CORRECTIONS

The Welsh Nationalists on your editorial staff really should not get away with saying that Snowdon is the second highest mountain in Britain (SR479). We Scots would defend Ben Macdui in the Cairngorms as holding that title, at 4,295 feet. We would also advance the claims of 54 other recognised Munros between that level and the 3,566 feet attained by Beinn a’ Chlachar south of Loch Laggan and thereby just pipping Snowdon by six feet. It may even be that the upper terminus of the Cairngorm funicular railway is a wee bit higher than the top of the Snowdon Mountain Railway. We concede, however, that Snowdon beats anything in England.

Richard Crockett, Dunblane, Perthshire

The Duke of Westminster might be surprised to learn that his ancestral seat of Eaton Hall had ever been in Derbyshire (Katie’s Comeback, SR479). It is a couple of miles south of Chester, where the late duke built himself a smaller, more modern home in the late 20th century. Large-scale maps from about 1910 show a 2½mile narrow gauge line linking outbuildings near Eaton Hall with Balderton station on the Chester-Wrexham GWR line.

Andrew Tarr, Frodsham

From SR479: “One of the World’s earliest wooden railways”. I suggest you read Les Turnbull’s Railways Before George Stephenson, A Study of the Waggonways in the Great Northern Coalfield 1605-1830. The clue is in the subtitle…

Dave Taylor, Dunmow, Essex

There is no excuse to misidentify a ‘Deltic’ (SR475, Crewe’s Modernisation Plan) – they are, in any case, ‘honorary steam engines,’ given their pedigree and exhaust. Jeremy Hosking’s No. 55022 was No. D9000, not No. D9022 (which didn’t exist), and was the doyen of the class, making it just that little bit more significant.

Malcolm Taylor, Tulsa, USA