I WONDER how many people, like myself, are appalled at the overspend of £2 million at Steam Museum.

I thought £11 million was a gross amount to spend on what was a decrepit building, however important its historical claims.

Now it looks as if, as always in this day and age, nobody can estimate true costs of such projects.

I believe that Brunel underestimated the cost of building the Great Western from London to Bristol, but this was a railway 118 miles long and built on a magnitude never seen before in the world.

Brunel never had the modern technology that man has today available for such projects.

I have wondered why the buildings that house Steam were chosen. The old B shop (later 19 shop I think), which made an excellent museum in 1990 for the NRM on Tour Exhibition and is now a roofless ruin, would have been far cheaper to convert than where Steam is now housed.

Preserved Railways up and down the country have to get by on far less money, than what Steam has available.

If some had £1 million they would consider it as being in paradise.

FRANK GLEED

West View

Swindon