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  1. It's playing on my mind that I had an awful time the last time I did it at Christmas, and I'm going to be even more unfit now. I do kind of wonder if it's really for me or if I've hit a limit on what I'm capable of. #SteamRailway

  2. I hate to say it, but I've volunteered for a couple of days on the #SteamRailway but I'm already dreading it.

  3. Anyway, took the opportunity with a moment of quiet to catch up on training paperwork for my new railway. #SteamRailway

  4. Of course, having now seen Metropolitan No.1, I kind of want the model of it that came out a year or two back. #SteamRailway

  5. Out doing introductory training at my new railway #SteamRailway

  6. A last one from the south end of the Up platform at Corfe a week yesterday. Sorry to miss last weekend's Steam Gala but I had business in Brizzle.

    #MonochromeMarch #MonochromeMonday #CorfeCastle #SteamRailway #BulleidPacific #SpamCan

  7. Another shot from Sunday, from a viewpoint of "sitting on the platform ramp" at Corfe. Fractionally better light on this side. #SteamRailway #Railway #SpamCan #CorfeCastle

  8. One from Corfe last weekend that would qualify for StilleSonntag if it wasn't for the insistent kettle noise.

    One engine in steam, and the signal box was unmanned, so all working was from the Up platform, hence the wrong line working.

    Nice to see a preserved locomotive looking slightly scruffy. Rolling stock was immaculate.

    Taken on an actual camera and moving my photo workflow to Linux, so took 5x longer than usual!

    #railway #steamrailway #BulleidPacific #SpamCan

  9. I have though, also taken the opportunity to email the railway centre I went to in October to introduce myself, and ask about what the pathway is for getting on the footplate of their engines. They seem like a nice bunch and their little industrial steam locos seem much more my style than this big stupid American thing. #SteamRailway

  10. Well, I just sent an email back to the railway saying I'm not available for these dates. It might look a bit odd given the timeframe is March until the start of May but oh well. #SteamRailway

  11. I have a dilemma. I have been given the availability sheet for the first part of the running on the #SteamRailway, but after the awful experience before Christmas, I'm kind of reluctant to volunteer.

  12. Meanwhile, the S160 burns 2.5 tonnes of it in a day, and that’s doing 3-4 round trips of 6 miles #SteamRailway

  13. In fairness to our S160, it has a coal capacity in the tender of 9 tonnes of coal, so I think you’d probably get a few years of home heating, more like! #SteamRailway

  14. Anyway, I am scrubbed clean (well, as good as I can do, I’ll no doubt find more coal somewhere tomorrow), I am in my pyjamas and I am ordering a tasty takeaway delivery.

    Glad you enjoyed my #SteamRailway toots today. Can recommend going and playing with old trains.

  15. I am home and, unlike last time out where I think I cried on my parents over the phone about how I wasn’t strong enough and good enough to do all this, I’ve come back having enjoyed myself today. First time in a while. #SteamRailway

  16. Paraffin lamps are lit for our last trip. #SteamRailway

  17. Yeah, this is what it’s about (ok, and I do get joy from seeing kids excited about our steam train too, I’ll confess) #SteamRailway

  18. The weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful. #SteamRailway

  19. Well, I’ve gone between for the first time today to uncouple and couple the loco. A lot easier without a kidney stone. I just need to get fitter! #SteamRailway

  20. Anyone need to heat their home for the next week or so? #SteamRailway

  21. It was a little bit emotional, I must confess. #SteamRailway

  22. Messing around with the phone camera, Imovie on an Ipad and some music from Colin Bass and his ketches of Brain - unfinished songs from in the meantime.
    youtu.be/REpcgRHgxpk?si=ci-zTZ
    #Aberystwyth #Rheidol #SteamRailway #starlings #Murmuration #Pier