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« on: April 03, 2025, 21:27:21 »
I loved his vision for Regional Railways. The rail system is the poorer for it (and him) being no longer with us. Thoughts with his family.

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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2025, 21:30:35 »
There are some great tributes on Twitter/X
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2025, 21:56:53 »
Sadly, we don't have details about Gordon Pettitt here on the Coffee Shop forum, but I do commend this - on another railway forum: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gordon-pettitt-1934-2025.284185/

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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2025, 08:41:24 »
Very large obituary in today's Telegraph.
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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2025, 09:47:21 »
It's worth spending time with his book "The Regional Railways Story". (If no second hand copy, public libraries will help you lay hands on one). It's a loss to the travelling public that privatisation put his arc of progress on inter-regional services into reverse.

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« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 13:57:35 »
An article in 'Rail' magazine on Gordon Pettitt.

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https://www.railmagazine.com/news/people/2025/04/10/gordon-pettitt-manager-who-built-regional-railways-and-took-care-of-his-staff
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