(or 'Notes from an enthusiast's diary'...)
May 18th, 2008
'We decided to head to the coast today, as we went to Cleethorpes only a fortnight ago I suggested to my wife we ent to Somerthorpe instead. "Somerwhere?" she asked, "I bet there's a railway there isn't there?" Not replying we set off for the sea, and parked up at the south end of the town near the Thorpe Sands holiday park and Funland. A nearby blast of a whistle confirmed my wife's fears. There was a railway here!'
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The whistle had come from 'Pandora', the railway's 2-6-2 tank loco... |
'Pandora' was ready to depart from Shifting Sands station... |
Chatting to the chaps in the shed, they let me have a wander around, and I captured this shot just before Pandora set off... |
The diesel loco Intrepid seen from the dunes after a steady climb... |
Thunderbolt is the line's oldest steam loco... |
The railway's Ravenglass built tram loco Cumbria... |
Don't tell anyone at the council this, but I stood on a litter bin to get this shot... |
Towards the end of the day Thunderbolt and Pandora sit outside the shed... |
Finally, Cumbria demonstrates some stock built in the workshop for another railway. |
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