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Letter: Letters: Not trainspotters

Published 14 August 1993

From R. J. F. MAINES

Feedback stated on 17 July:

‘Feedback’s man-at-the-end-of-the-platform-with-anorak-and-notebook
writes: ‘The APT was last spotted in 1986 being broken up in a scrapyard
in Doncaster’.’

Well, Feedback’s informant can’t have been a real trainspotter, or he
would have known that there is an APT (advanced passenger train) rusting
away at the back of the railway museum at York. PS I’m not a trainspotter.

R. J. F. Maines Jarrow, Tyne & Wear

Issue no. 1886 published 14 August 1993

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