Welling and District Model Engineering Society
Welling and District Model Engingeering Society
Well, that’s it for another year of local steam train fun. Sunday was the last public running day on the Falconwood Toy Trains, and it was busier than I’ve ever seen it before – which is understandable considering that Electricité De France, the landowners, might need the land back. Unfortunately a suitable new home has not been arranged as yet, and I get the feeling it’s going to be hard finding somewhere as neatly secluded as the grounds of an electrical substation. The thought of moving must be quite a daunting one, as the track itself is twelve hundred feet long (that’s 386 metres to edf), and that’s before they begin to think about what to do with all the other accumulated steam travel paraphenalia and structures they’ve been adding to the circuit over the last x years, such as the glorious little humpback bridge that takes you over the railway as you enter the enclosure.
In my continuing efforts to present a multi-sensory hill experience I have added a recording of a ride around the track to accompany the photo, and short of coming round to your house and starting a coal fire in front of your armchair and spraying you with steam, I think it goes some way towards reflecting the moment, I deliberately didn’t use video, as sound leaves a bit more to the imagination.
Plummy Mummy 5:41 pm on October 6, 2009 Permalink |
Oh~! I didn’t even know about this. My tot who is into all things Choo Choo would have loved it.
BTW your header picture is lovely.
hilly 2:49 pm on October 7, 2009 Permalink |
hiya plummy! there is a toy train at swanley, you could try that?
Plummy Mummy 6:31 pm on October 7, 2009 Permalink |
Don’t suppose you have any details as Google let me down this time
hilly 8:57 pm on October 7, 2009 Permalink |
With compliments: Swanley New Barn Railway