This morning I had been given the information, posted
the Newport Village FaceBook page that the Oliver Cromwell steam engine,
(Cathedral Express and Steam Dreams) would be coming through Newport, leaving
Broxbourne (about half an hour away) at 1020 hours. Wrong. I went onto the station
just after 1000 hours only to be told that she had already gone through and
that it was not the Oliver Cromwell; she and Britannia have both been taken out
of service. Another train enthusiast telephoned someone to check that there was
not another one later. He also told me that she would be returning through
Newport just before 1830 hours; next time I will check for myself.
However, being a disbelieving sod sort of
person I stood in my garden, for an hour, camera in hand watching the train
line; she had indeed gone. The trains pass by the bottom of my garden and
neither the GOG nor I heard her; unusual as they are usually quite noisy.
I pottered about during the day, planting the
Christmas tree and filling bird feeders. We had a very late lunch and then I
watched the second Harry Potter film, as if I have not seen it enough times. I
decided that I would not go out in the cold and watch her come back this
evening, but it got the better of me and along with some other stupid people
train enthusiasts, we stood on the platform and watched her pass; the coaches
were being pulled by two ‘Black Fives’, not a named engine.
There used to be a lot of steam trains on this line,
but we get very few these days, there is another one coming through early on
Thursday morning; hopefully that will be my blip for the day.
I make no apologises for the poor quality of this
picture. I took several as she thundered through at what seemed like a hundred
miles and hour. The railway line joins my two small ‘One Streets’ so this is
another one to add to my collection.
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