10 OCTOBER 1958, Page 24

SCARBOROUGH VIA LINCOLN

SIR,-1 am puzzling on how Taper managed to see Peterborough, Lincoln and York on his way to Scarborough. I may be wrong, but I should not imagine that any train takes such a roundabout route.. Perhaps he saw Grantham Parish Church, which might be taken for a cathedral, or perhaps he thought Selby Abbey was Lincoln.—Yours faith-

2 Vicar's Close, Chichester, Sussex

DAVID W. LLOYD

[Taper writes : The train was diverted 'via Lincoln (and a good few other places) so that the Lincoln- 'shire Regiment, most of which appeared to be aboard, could get off near its home. I also saw Grantham Parish Church and Selby Abbey. Also the Gains- borough Gasworks. But I did not mistake any of them for Lincoln Cathedral.'—Editor, Spectator.]