Those interested in Railways and Cartography, will be sorry to read that HyJack has died.
He was very knowledgeable and we started exchanging emails when he kindly corrected an error of mine regarding a little saddle tank engine which I had wrongly described .
We exchanged emails for a couple of years but his computer was not
behaving.
Profoundly deaf so the phone was of no help.
Then his brother suddenly died which was a great sorrow to him .
Communication stopped so I was very worried as he was completely alone so I contacted Edinburgh Police who traced him from the little info I could give them .He was O.K. Computer not working .
A few messages then it all stopped again ,so Police contacted once more and again it was that he had no means of contacting me as we did not exchange addresses and his profound deafness prevented phone messages .
Quite a while passed then a message from his niece , sadly he had died.
She had found my phone number .
Even though he never used it.
I am very sorry it has ended as it has, a very intelligent man a Cartographer which he did in the RAF.
He spoke Russian ,also learnt whilst in The RAF.
I thought some people would remember him and miss his knowledgeable
input ..
Viktoria.
