I must be getting old as me and the good lady getting into steam railways thinks its the nostalgic thing and harping back to the good old days of rural england ....and the cream teas
we normally visit them on holiday but keep thinking of doing local ones ie Kent...appear to be a few anyone know of the best ones to visit in kent ?
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i know there's one i surrey down godalming way somewhere
*cough* so a mate told me ;-)
That one is great.
Dymchurch to Hythe has one doesn't it? sure I went on one to Dungerness once
a bloke in work told me honest.
If you want to go further afield "down south", the Swannage Railway from Swannage to Corfe Castle is one of the best I've been on.
Bing "The Steam"
And before the trainspotter jibes come in, for us it was a fitting tribute to my father in law who passed away a couple of years ago and worked all his life on the railways.
The honeymoon on the trans-mongolian railway and full trip by train from Beijing back to Oxford however I may let you have a few thermos flask gags about ;)
You start off on the industrial estate make your way past the scrap yard, sewage works, Asdas, the Dump across the nature reserve and end up at the paper mill and to top it all of the Volunteers that help this go along are usually community services guys i kid you not!!. Enjoy!
Note worth getting a return finishes in Kemsley very rough!!
SINK SINK SINK
Yes it is a small guage and well worth the ride. Tip get on a carriage well back from the engine or you will have a black speckled face by the time you get off.
Well worth going on.
Lol, did it involve phrases like 0040, saddle tanks and tenders? And how blue is his anorak?
And I think there's a big steam loco depot at Didcot near the power station.
When I used to work on the railway years ago, there used to be mainline steam loco specials, on a few of the BR main lines some weekends. They are probably still running from time to time, especially in the summer. You'd have to Google them to find out where and when - but you'd see a steam loco-hauled mainline express train speeding by, you can even buy tickets for them.
PS: What's a steam train.?
And do you have to be a Charlton fan, wear thick black rimmed glasses and an anorak to qualify?
Well, that looks like the next Charlton Life meet up is sorted then ; - )
I hate those sort of people. Bloody beardies!
I see the Vulcan XH 558 will be at this years Biggin Hill airfair.
Great when the planes whoooooooooosh over the garden on the way over.
27th & 28th June.
A list of aircraft present:
http://www.bigginhillairfair.co.uk/display.php
Are we trainspotters or/and Planespotters ?
PS. The Isle of Wight steam railway is brilliant............
.....apparently.
Take a picnic, table n chairs, flags and have a good old singalong to Rule Britannia, Jerusalem and the like to finish off the day.
There's a pretty good aerial display throughout the afternoon too.
http://www.headcornaerodrome.co.uk/flying_proms.html
When I lived at the country end of Bromley Common, Biggin Hill Air Show day meant loads of mates coming over to my place, in the garden with tinnies and whatever bottles of wallop they brought along.
We'd all lay around in the sun getting absolutely hammered watching all the different planes flying overhead.
Somebody would pick up a guitar, bongo's and stuff and we'd drunkenly try to sing Led Zep and Bad Company songs and do our best to annoy the neighbours, until we got bored with all that and staggered up to the pub as soon as it opened.
The only time I went to the show proper, we were stuck for hours in sweltering heat in a traffic jam all the way to airfield.
Never again. Hence the garden parties thereafter.
Yes rememebr many years ago me and me dad use to park up near bromley golf course and walk to the show..great days ......think if i did it now id struggle to A) make the distance B) not just bowl in first pub and stay there hant been fir like 20 years guess its got smaller over the years........anyone know if its still a good day out
Please admin delete this thread. The stick i get already there is no need for this!!!