Oliver Cromwell

[ffutures]

I see the steam excursion trains are running from Paddington again - Oliver Cromwell just went by my house



pulling a load of carriages. Unfortunately it was on the track nearest the house and half concealed by the wall on the other side of the road, so I couldn't get a picture of my own.

Comments

[davidbrider.livejournal.com]

What a beauty.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

They're lovely romantic things - but I've lived beside the railway all my life and I remember just how dirty things were before diesels and electrification - the bricks of this house are black from 200 years of soot!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh - that's a very handsome engine!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Just been looking it up - It's actually a fairly late design from 1951, and the last locomotive to be given a full overhaul by British Railways before they abandoned steam. I think Bittern, which does this run occasionally, is actually a prettier engine, but Cromwell has more of an aura of brute power.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Old Noll is very pretty:)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's more of a brute than Bittern, which sometimes does this run, but they're both very attractive engines.

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Pretty good, but personally I'm more taken by the Bullied's and some of Greasely's.

But I'm a simple soul.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't know enough about engines to comment - I've looked up the ones I see on the line, that's about it.

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

Nor do I really. It doesn't stop me having an uniformed preference though.

I blame my father - to many trips with him to the Bluebell railway in my youth (and of course Blackmore Vale)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Our Richard III tour group was standing on the hill at Bosworth field and we could see puffs of vapor from an engine down below. I suggested that it was a Stanley Steamer. Ar ar.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

cruel...