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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Yes Dave. That platform was crying out for such a sign
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:
The most clever thing about the puffers was that they didn't need a regular harbour to operate. Provided the location was an island or mainland with a sandy beach, then the puffer would come in at high tide, anchor and wait for low tide where it would settle on the sand. This was because it had a completely flat bottom.
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