Joseph McAllister wrote:
On Dec 30, 2008, at 13:41 , Mark Roberts wrote:
I think I've shown this image before but I finally got around to
creating a proper rendering and putting it up on my web site.
http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7cf01203.htm
PZ-1p, Fuji Provia 100, lens long forgotten
As a trainfan, I say you've got it there, Mark. Spot on.
Thanks Joe (and you too, Frank)
This railway is part of my childhood, really. It runs between Paignton
and Kingswear (where I lived when I was very young) in Devon. Despite
it's name, this railway doesn't go to Dartmouth: When you reach
Kingswear you have to take a ferry across the river to Dartmouth, where
there's a railway station that has literally never seen a train!
When I was a kid, it was a regular rail line that ran standard
diesel/electric locomotives and we used it to go into Paignton (and then
Brixham or Torquay) to go shopping. It was shut down during the rail
closures of the seventies, IIRC, but re-opened as a steam-driven tourist
attraction. At one time, a major newspaper rated it as the most scenic
rail route in Britain.
It even has its own Wikipedia entry now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paignton_and_Dartmouth_Steam_Railway
The photo was taken when Lisa and I visited in 1999.
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