Editorial
In a guest editorial this month JOHN SCHOLES, compiler of the detailed captions for our industrial railways photograph features, shares some philosophical thoughts. ‘History is bunk’ is an oft misquoted section of a 1916 lengthy interview with Henry Ford by the Chicago Tribune. The missing words ‘more or less’ changed the context, moving him ‘historically’ from hero to villain. Keen to see aspects of the past preserved, he opened a museum in his home town of Dearborn thirteen years later. Rail featured with other exhibit; he commissioned Darlington locomotive builders, Robert Stephenson & Co. to build a replica Rocket to as near original as known and used it on rails round the museum until laid up in 1949. I am not sure if it is just an age thing, but…