Talk:Leiston

Interesting local facts, and the local character, have been deleted.
Earlier versions of the article had facts that were characteristic of Leiston as opposed to every other small town. Someone deleted them, making the article more like an almanac entry. Leiston is not a typical rural Suffolk town. A famous quote was like: "It's a shock to visit Leiston, to find this tiny island of the industrial Midlands plopped among the remote farms of Suffolk." The Leiston Works worker's culture was totally unlike that of farmers in nearby towns. For business visitors (and posh Summerhill School parents up from London), the Leiston accent was a shocker. From the mouth of an industrial engineer would come an almost incomprehensible East Anglian "peasant brogue". Standard greeting among males: "Ey bwee, wahtya DOOnenn bwee?" (Hey boy, what are you doing then, boy?). About 20 years ago a wave of drug culture and associated problems hit Leiston. Fun (characteristic) facts and significant facts about Leiston should be restored.

The article says: "...the now decommissioned Magnox reactors of Sizewell A and the more modern Pressurised Water Reactor of Sizewell B." There's nothing "more modern" about water cooling Sizewell B than the innovative liquid sodium cooled Sizewell A. Water cooling was a much older (and American) technology that required shutting down the whole power plant to change any fuel rod. In Sizewell A you could change one rod at a time as needed without turning off the electricity generation. It was hardly ever turned off, for decades. Sizewell A: the Pride of Britain in its day. 2605:6000:ED08:B300:658A:8651:F8AB:A2AF (talk) 10:09, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * If you have well-sourced information then why not add it to the article yourself? Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 11:41, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Leiston Railway Station
Still exists, still has a railway line going through it, and ought to be available for passenger use by people from Leiston and tourists. And even extended for use by Thorpness and Aldeburgh. 80.47.169.101 (talk) 11:25, 28 May 2024 (UTC)