The Beauty of Nature

I realise the pictures do not do it justice, but to see a train, however small, pick up steam as it rumbles towards you, is an amazing sight.

This is the view of the estuary at Ravenglass when the tide is out. It it amazing to see.

A lovely name, named after the local river in the next few photos. You can see the river from the train for some of the journey.

Another turntable this time at the other end of the line. I’m told this was an old stone quarry line.

It is nice to see a station called The Green. All stations should be green and pleasant, but they are usually concrete and stone.

Being able to turn a train seems almost silly. They are supposed to go up and down and that is it. Yet it seems a logical process to be at the front of a train when it is moving. I never saw the merit of a loco pushing the train in front of it – how can you see danger?!

I suppose these are nothing more than pressure cookers with a use for the steam coming off. Still they are a sight to behold.

I liked this train, it was so twee. I suppose those of you into trains will tell me off for saying that, but it looked so sweet to me.

I took a trip on the local narrow gauge railway. It was small and bijou and quite fun apart from the weather.

These are a couple of shots of te towers at the station, one highlighting the sky, the other the towers.