End results count for more than historical accuracy
WITH reference to Nigel Spencer’s letter in issue 254, I would respectfully suggest that historical accuracy is only really important for registered museums, where the purpose is to present artefacts in an exact a way as possible for the benefit of students of history.
When it comes to heritage railways, they are not primarily preserved and maintained in working order as faithfully accurate historical records for scholars, but as nostalgic reminders of a paradigm that no longer exists in
