Wooo...wooo...sssshhhhh...shhhhsshhh ...

[chenrezig]

Cooorrrr!
Was walking to work this am about 8am and I thought to myself, what on earth is all that smoke, then I thought naaah, can't be.

Curiosity got the better of yours truly ... and it WAS!! The last time I saw a steam train on a main rail line was way back in 1962ish at Wisbech..

The Mayflower, chartered by a holiday company to run trips all over the place

(link to Evening News Article http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/pho ... _1_3951964)

I only had my mobile with me so please 'scuse the quality -



the video is better but takes so long to upload I have put just the first installment here

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First clip is the engine moving out of the station, to chnage platforms, a second where it shunts backwards onto the other platform ..and a third ... knackered myself, but I charged up the road with another lady to the bridge near where Scotts used to be - I will add them as I manage to get them uploaded ..

[wendy]

How wonderful, I saw this in tonights paper but to know you have seen this is much better.

[chenrezig]

Thank you !

I got in a bit later than I usually do, but I am on flexitime so I made it up at the end of the day ..

I was suprised there was very little on the TV as I watched About Anglia and Look East

here is the second video

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[maureenho]

How lovely to have seen the train, when I saw it on TV I tried to imagine the smell of the steam.

[Rosalind]

That was brilliant, I bet it made your day h###u .

[chenrezig]

It did make my day .. I am paying it for a bit this morning though as my legs ache after all that running lol I will try and get the last video, the one I took from the bridge on tonight

xx

[wendy]

look in the carers newspaper today.

x

[annie]

I love steam trains

[chenrezig]

Sorry, got back much later than I expected tonight .. I will try n post the video of it coming out of the station tomorrow night

[chenrezig]

Here we are ! It was lovely watching it coming out of the station .. At first all you could see was the steam rolling along the rails in front of it (like when you see film from a camera set up on the ground to film an avalanche), then it slowly emerged ..................... TEN carriages, including a Pullman dining car

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[wendy]

thanks so much Liz, would you mind if I put them on twitter?

[chenrezig]

Of course I don't mind you tweeting them .. they are already on You Tube, had to put them on there to be able to put them on Chill

[wendy]

yipeeeeee