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Steam Trains

I have no intention of teaching anyone visiting this gallery anything about steam trains, it's all been done before, and I am not going to do pretty picture of trains, because they have already been taken too. what I want here is to capture some of the atmosphere that we all remember as kids, when we would run up the foot bridge to get a whiff of that steamy, smoky, oily smell of the steam locomotive, along with that special low pitch rumble of 100 tons of solid metal which almost lived and breathed.

Of course steam locos did not just run by themselves, they needed an army of highly skilled people to keep them running, so I have included some workshop photos as a way of saying thanks to all those volunteers who freely give up their weekends to keep these marvels of engineering on the rails for us to enjoy a Legacy form the past.

Maker