Great Western Coffee Shop

Can't believe I'm posting this ... same capacity, same timings, must be a nightmare to keep both th empower cars with the same rake of coaches.   But I'll admit it looks smart.

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/ifoundit.jpg)

I think you probably need to get out a bit more.  ;) :D ;D

I took, in my opinion, a near perfect picture of the same train in Swindon last week but decided not to post it as the leading power car had an added embellishment which I didn't notice initially.  A dead pheasant hanging from the drawgear door!   ???

Another pheasant surprise.  ;D

(sorry)

That'll be on the Pullman menu this week!

Reminds me somewhere I might still have a picture of a Britannia entering Arnside in 1967 with a pheasant on the buffer beam. Spent quite a lot of time chasing and riding behind the last steam that Summer.

Did the Preston loop on a Glasgow Blackpool train behind a Black Five. It's quite strange that 15 minutes  after going South/East through Preston you are going through Preston again but in the other direction.

I almost said I may have met you there, but now I recall correctly, I was there in 1966 (watched the cup final there, helps anchor the date) My uncle, with a little help from a new fisherman, got a couple of nice salmon that had found themselves stuck in pools as the tide went out. Pheasant would have gone down well too.

Wasn't there recently a train pulled into Gatwick Airport station with an unfortunate deer stuck to the outside, which caught fire when it caught on the third rail?