Just published to “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” – the illustrated account, with video, of the “Steam in the Park” event on Sunday 13th July. Visit now!
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Steam in the Park
Just back from a great afternoon at Wicksteed Park, Kettering – the annual “Steam in the Park” event, with visiting locos Kerr Stuart “Peter Pan” (doesn’t he get around?), Baguley “Rishra” and Hunslet “Alice” all seeing action on the 1.25 mile circular track. Fine sunny weather too – at last!
A “Rail Diaries” page will follow – soon…
To Marylebone and the museum
Saturday 21st June – the longest day, ideal for an early-out late-back trip on one of the country’s newest rail services (albeit one with a bit of old-fashioned style and customer service) – and a revisit, after nearly 30 years, to London Transport’s fine revamped museum at Covent Garden.
Visit (Wrexham &) Shropshire and Covent Garden, on Geoff’s Rail Diaries, for a full account of an excellent trip
A day out in Birkenhead
Monday morning at work. “Did you have a good weekend?” “Yes, we had a day out in Birkenhead”…
Scoff not. The newly-constructed tramway from Woodside ferry terminal (I think we parked in what used to be Birkenhead Woodside station) to the tramway museum in Taylor Street is well worth a visit – especially when a fine vintage tram like Birkenhead No. 20, over 100 years old, is running. 
Riding the open top deck on a warm June afternoon, what more could one want? Well for afters, a cruise down the Mersey…
Visit “Birkenhead’s trams” on “Geoff’s Rail Diaries”
Highley’s new Engine House
Just published to “Geoff’s Rail Diaries“, a brief account of a visit to the tremendous new facility at Highley on the Severn Valley Railway. Visit “The Engine House” for pictures and more…
Manning "Matthew Murray" at Middleton…
Paid a return visit to the Middleton Railway, Leeds, yesterday. I was last there in 1974 – things have changed a little… Visit “Middleton revisited” on Geoff’s Rail Diaries for a trip up the line, in the company of a fine little Manning Wardle, and a glimpse of the splendid new “Engine House”.
Sir Gomer of Shackerstone
As promised, here’s the illustrated account of a trip to the Battlefield Line, and our ride down the line in the company of “Sir Gomer”.
Visit “Sir Gomer of Shackerstone“, the first 2008 entry (what a miserable spring it’s been!) on “Geoff’s Rail Diaries”
Sir Gomer
Just back from a pleasant little trip to Shackerstone, home of the Leicestershire’s “Battlefield Line” – and a ride behind a very fine ex-S Wales NCB Peckett 0-6-0ST “Sir Gomer”
A Rail Diaries entry will, of course, follow in due course…
Steamy old slides
I’ve been scanning some old slides, taken 20 – 30 years ago, when I spent perhaps more time than I should have, going out snapping steam specials on the main lines (haven’t bothered so much in recent years – too many people – and trees – and inevitably photos identical to those of many others…)
Click the thumbnail to follow through to lots more steamy old slides on Flickr
Cadley Hill remembered
Remember Cadley Hill colliery? Near Swadlingcote, just out of Burton on the road to Nuneaton? It was one of the last (if not the last) outposts of regular industrial steam in the UK. Steam finished here in the early 1980s, and the colliery closed on 1988. Today, little remains to indicate Cadley Hill’s industrial past.
Visit “Cadley Hill” for a glimpse of the scene in south Derbyshire around 30 years ago
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