YOUR article by Steve Pratt about the Search Engine archive and research centre at the National Railway Museum in York (Echo, May 5) was very interesting. My visit to the museum recently was very disappointing.

Many times I have loved to sit down in the restaurant and look at the great atmospheric pictures which were displayed the full length of the seating area. The new franchise owners have taken them all down. For what reason I don’t know. They have destroyed the atmosphere.

The pictures were of the Twenties and Thirties, black and white smoke-filled station waiting rooms, travellers waving goodbye, real nostalgia. These pictures need to be displayed, not stored away.

Can somebody please tell me why this was allowed to happen?

P Dickenson, Billingham.