One for Woody

[soulman101]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L22hYqKiMw Garden railway

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L22hYqKiMw Garden railway

Looks tremendous mate. I have had a quick dip and decided to keep the rest for tonight to enjoy with a bottle of plonk.

Cheers mate! I think, frankly it makes my efforts a bit feeble.

[Q165]

Silly question I know but have you been on The Romney, Hythe and Dymchuch railway? I am not a ‘train person” but I thought that it was really great experience.

[SCOOP115]

Silly question I know but have you been on The Romney, Hythe and Dymchuch railway? I am not a ‘train person” but I thought that it was really great experience.

To be fair for a lot of "newer" generation people , a steam train ride is a different experience. For us "oldies" it brings back some great childhood memories

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

If I think about it, in all honesty it is the recollections of my childhood that it triggers that gives me the most pleasure with steam trains, not the journey itself.

I grew up in a railway environment ,Bushbury, with three loco sheds and a loco works close by and all the smells and sounds associated with them. Also of course like most people at the time our family holiday involved a long train journey, to Devon in our case.

My strongest memory is sitting on my dads shoulders on the crowded platform of low level station and pressing my head against him in fear as a very loud and steamy loco dragged the coaches of our train in ready for the journey. I can even remember the smell and fell of his tweed jacket!

So the journey, its OK, but the memories that come flooding back, priceless!

[WBA1955]

One of the best model set's I have seen on YouTube is the airport one.
Fantastic.