Long walk to NRM is 'an inexcusable shambles'
RE: EXCELLENT features in The Press about Railway Museum access.
Why it was considered acceptable to force a long walk around museum buildings to the entrance is beyond me.
No shelter and few seats en route. It's supposed to be "temporary" but such arrangements can last for years.
A family of two adults and two children will pay £18 each way to use the road train. £36 return. A lot to reach a "free" museum. A taxi would be cheaper.
Your correspondent who says the route is only two minutes longer than the previous must be an Olympic sprinter. I am a reasonably fast walker but it's an extra ten minutes each way. No fun when we're advised to avoid the heat when possible.
Some museum staff have collected visitor comments about access. One of the more printable is "Does admission include Ramblers Association membership?"
It's an inexcusable shambles.
Roger Backhouse,
Orchard Road,
Upper Poppleton,
York
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Andy Burnham you have failed us at your first hurdle
SO Andy Burnham says we have to let some prisoners out early as our prisons are at full capacity.
The killers of a police person are not on the list of exceptions.
So what about every police officer in the country and their families and the chief constables who are responsible for there safety?
Andy Burnham, your first comment shows no empathy. It shows poor leadership. It shows lack of compassion.
You have not the common sense to realise the public are not going to except your first of many cock ups which I know are going to follow.
Andy Burnham you have failed us at your first hurdle.
Nicholas Hodgson,
Northolme Drive,
York
Case for York to be 'No 10 in the north'
REGARDING the latest Labour Prime Minister's new Number 10 in the North.
Well he doesn't have to look anymore.
York has everything and has previously been the Northern capital – the Romans (Britannia Inferior), the capital of Viking Kingdom of Jorvik, and the wartime capital of Charles I in 1642.
Our city was so important that many of the the most important battles in England's history were fought locally: Fulford and Stamford Bridge in 1066; Towton in 1461 (the bloodiest battle on English soil where approximately 28,000 died), Marston Moor in 1644 plus dozens of minor engagements.
York also sits approximately halfway between London and Edinburgh, on the main railway line north.
And I have the perfect building in mind – the old Bootham Park Hospital, a beautiful impressive building and vacant.
And best of all, straight talking Yorkshire folk to keep him in check.
And if he takes note of the favourite question used by Yorkshire men of "how much" when purchasing, he'd soon have the country's finances back on their track.
D M Deamer,
Penleys Grove Street,
Monkgate,
York
Navigating the right way
I ENJOYED a recent article about the building of the York to Scarborough railway.
However, it said that armies of navvies were employed to carry out the work but they were in fact navigators, navigating their way from York.
Many names and long words are often shortened but any navvies out there should be aware that they are navigators.
Your next job application should be interesting.
Brian Oxberry,
Field Court,
Heworth,
York
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