PETER HANDS' STATEMENT

摘要

Firstly, I would like to thank the Editor of The Railway Magazine for giving me the opportunity to refute any suggestion that I deliberately fabricated some of the storage and disposal information in my 'What Happened to Steam' books (published between 1980 and 1985). The information within those books was collated during the 1970s from the only two sources available to me at the time - railway journals and via correspondence with other rail enthusiasts whose knowledge of disposals was published by myself in good faith. It now transpires, many years later, that some of the information I received from both sources was wrong, but how was I to know that at the time?