IN response to your headline article (Echo Sept 6): “Plan to Cash in on Rail Heritage” and Councillor Nick Wallis’s comments about “quality and quantity” by residents of Darlington, perhaps he should remember as part of the town’s arts and culture, the Pease Library is, and always has been a major contributor in the town, to art, culture and education.

If the council is, once again, looking to cash in to the tune of £26 million a year, they should divert a tiny proportion of that sum to preserving our ‘heritage library’.

The Pease family were massive contributors to the welfare and cultural benefits of this town, as well as the prime movers of the birth of the railway.

Councillors Nick Wallis, Chris McEwan and Bill Dixon are not seeing the Darlington town centre or its surroundings as I, and a large proportion of residents see it.

They are not worthy of the confidence that we put in them.

They should go.

Mrs Brenda Marshall, Darlington