In your excellent January editorial, you attribute the lingering and damaging dispute between ASLEF and Southern to a reluctance to modernise and move with the times. Can we realistically expect an organisation to open its doors readily to modernisation when it continues to call itself The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen? British Railways has a history of Imperial measurement's, 4ft 81/2in, 7ft 01/4in, City of Truro, 102.3mph etc. So why am I seeing more and more references to metric in your magazine, sometimes both in the same article? Let's keep it imperial, our railways were built on it, and if it's good enough for the navvies and Mr Brunei, it is good enough for me.
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