Winchcombe Steam walk - Wednesday 18 October 2017
Vans, buses and coaches cause chaos in Winchcombe Railway car park
Dropping off school children pretending to be evacuees
At last we get into the car park, buy tickets and wait on the other platform
There's an Air Raid shelter
With instructions as to what to do. We didn't have the gas masks.
It's a dreary day
But the arrival of the steam engine brightens the day - one of the latest built, Patrick tells us
Inside we sit down with the smell of bacon rolls wafting over us
Patrick tells us to listen and see if we can hear whether the train slips on the wet track going uphill
Very soon we get off
At Gotherington
The train ready to depart and our cigarettes stubbed out in the correct receptacle
Our walk takes us fairly parallel with the railway line so we can see the train at frequent intervals
And stop to watch it on its journey
We get to this field where it is suggested that we pose for a group photo under this sign
They have a lot of sponsors for this event
Which involves Mud
Coffee stop
We pass this shelter with its Latin motto - something about "like in a storm". Looks as if it was built by the Romans, anyway
At Stanley Pontlarge Patrick points out the former home of L.T. Rolt who wrote about canals and heritage railways
More steam, this time from a manure heap
Autumn colours
Small dog making big noise
And chickens
And alpacas
I try to photo the face of the multi-coloured one but he hides his head - I won't make a wildlife photographer
The train can be seen in the station
As it pulls away, we listen. "4 chuffs to a revolution", says Patrick. Never learned that at school!
Signals
And then we are back and into the cafe.
Photos, captions, processing and uploading by Sally