Barbed Comments

As many followers of WHTS will no doubt be aware a certain individual has conducted a ceaseless campaign to denigrate my work since 2009 and never misses an opportunity to pass adverse comments about me in his own vitriolic manner via the railway press. In 2014 I had an article published in The Severn Valley Railway News describing the difficulties associated when attempting to gain access to scrapyards in the 1960’s. A section of the article was devoted to a friend of mine from Yorkshire who hoped, by asking permission, to gain entry into Cashmore’s, Great Bridge but was unceremoniously thrown out on his ear without as much as a by your leave.

I penned the above in a light-hearted manner, but despite the article having nothing whatsoever to do with the ultra-critic, who obviously has no sense of humour, in the very next issue of an in-house railway magazine, which, to all intents and purposes, appears to have given him carte-blanche to air his grievances unopposed, he took great pleasure, in a contemptuous, nay sneering, manner, under the banner headline of ‘UTTER DRIVEL,’ by announcing how easy it had been for him to gain access to scrapyards and that he knew of a chap who’d been around Cashmore’s, Great Bridge in excess of 150 times. (Perhaps he worked there!!)

‘The camera never lies,’ so the saying goes. The evidence portrayed below tells us a different story to the one the ultra-critic would have us believe.