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Something for the Weekend - Part 227 - Going loco!

  • November 8, 2024
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Thank to all who took part in our previous 'puddles' challenge. After all that walking and splashing, this week I thought we should look at more modern transport. of course 'more modern' is relative and this locomotive is on the South Tynedale railway in Alston, a 2 foot, narrow gauge, railway.

 

As the train pulls into the platform, what happens next?

 

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November 12, 2024

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November 12, 2024

A happy train Lynette! Welcome to SFTW.

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November 11, 2024

Alston Sauna

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November 11, 2024

That reminds me of when I was a kid, watching coal being unloaded from the puffers (small steam-powered coastal cargo carriers) that brought it to the island. Every time the derrick started lifting, I'd be completely enveloped in a huge cloud of steam because it was also steam-powered.

One of those puffers was the Vital Spark, famous in 20th-Century Scottish literature, still running today:
  

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November 11, 2024

@AlanGilbertson Tales of Para Handy - brilliant! I didn't realise you were from the Scottish Isles. A lovely part of the world.

 

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November 11, 2024

Anyone for a quick game of Quidditch?

 

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November 11, 2024

That must be platform 9 3/4 then...

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November 17, 2024

Yes Dave.  That platform was crying out for such a sign

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November 11, 2024

 

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November 11, 2024

I think someone has been at the loco with a heavy hammer and a tin-opener! 🙂

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November 11, 2024

What's your motive?

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November 11, 2024

A method acting train - should do well 🙂

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November 16, 2024

Possibilities are wide open @davescm 

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November 11, 2024

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November 11, 2024

So this must be Emma the steam locomotive 🙂

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November 11, 2024

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November 11, 2024

Oh no - that's another earworm you have set going 🙂
I love the flames on his shoes as he tries to stop the train.

 

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November 10, 2024

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November 10, 2024

Sneaking through the tunnels and taking the signal box with him! 🙂

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November 10, 2024

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November 10, 2024

I love it - through the universe 🙂

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November 9, 2024

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November 10, 2024

A most extraordinary case of sine loco, James.