Perfect end to a perfect day - STEAM TRAIN DUE AT PRESTON PARK STATION @18:10

[dougdeep]

Don't think of taking up photography as a career.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Don't think of taking up photography as a career.

Did you think of getting your carer to photograph you?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I like steam trains and have enjoyed days out on the Bluebell line, Kent & East Sussex railway and the North York Moors line.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

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I can't actually see a train - just a large black lump.

 

[Norman Potting]

I can't actually see a train - just a large black lump.

Sacrilege, it is a thing of beauty! I believe that there is a real life driver of steam locos who posts on this very board from his exile outside Sussex.

 

[Beach Hut]

Sacrilege, it is a thing of beauty! I believe that there is a real life driver of steam locos who posts on this very board from his exile outside Sussex.

Think he works on a steam line in Kent.

 

[Hillian1]

There is something about seeing a Steam Locomotive that never fails to make me smile.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I like steam trains and have enjoyed days out on the Bluebell line, Kent & East Sussex railway and the North York Moors line.

I remember, when my kids were little, persuading them to stand next to the railway line that runs past our house - because a steam-hauled train was going to pass by. Their reaction was less than enthusiastic. "We've been on the Bluebell Railway. This will be just the same" was what they thought. "It'll be very different", I promised. And it was.

Why? Simple. The 'real' railway has a 90mph speed limit. When the train flew past, the kids were truly impressed.

 

[Kent Seagull]

Sacrilege, it is a thing of beauty! I believe that there is a real life driver of steam locos who posts on this very board from his exile outside Sussex.

That might be me!

 

[The Birdman]

One day you may see steam trains on a regular basis at Haywards Heath Station when the Bluebell breaks through however it looks twenty years away mainly due to the problem of line sharing north of the Heath railway station. money not the problem it's the line sharing. Space for a platform for the bluebell has been reserved on the east side .i hope that these issues can be resolved as would love to take a trip to East Grinsted by steam sooner than later. Take a look at the Bluebell web Site.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I remember, when my kids were little, persuading them to stand next to the railway line that runs past our house - because a steam-hauled train was going to pass by. Their reaction was less than enthusiastic. "We've been on the Bluebell Railway. This will be just the same" was what they thought. "It'll be very different", I promised. And it was.

Why? Simple. The 'real' railway has a 90mph speed limit. When the train flew past, the kids were truly impressed.

I can remember standing on Fishersgate Halt's footbridge when the Flying Scotsman did it's farewell tour.

 

[daveinprague]

I can remember being excited when i saw my first diesel train rather than the local chuffer.

 

[goldstone]

One day you may see steam trains on a regular basis at Haywards Heath Station when the Bluebell breaks through however it looks twenty years away mainly due to the problem of line sharing north of the Heath railway station. money not the problem it's the line sharing. Space for a platform for the bluebell has been reserved on the east side .i hope that these issues can be resolved as would love to take a trip to East Grinsted by steam sooner than later. Take a look at the Bluebell web Site.

No need for line sharing. There's an extra line all the way from Copyhold Junction to where they could build a separate Bluebell platform at HH.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

You will never ****ing guess what ?

 

[skipper734]

You will never ****ing guess what ?

I would. I was just getting my dinner ready and I thought I heard a puff puff of a steam train. Na. there was only one the other day. A minute or two later when the points were in it's favour opposite my house, the driver put his foot down and it shot passed chuffing away.