On Thursday last week I went to York railway station to see the last Scarborough Spa Express of 2022. Prior to Covid-19 there was a weekly service, but this year, as it seeks to become re-established, there has only been one service a month since July, on the first Thursday of the month - a total of three trips.
As a result there were quite a few photographers at the station. In this shot, the locomotive 46115 'Scots Guardsman' is beginning to move in a little cloud of steam.
There will probably be a break now before a number of steam hauled excursions bring people to York in the lead-up to Christmas for the Christmas Market. But don't worry, if there are others before then, I hope to see and photograph them, and I hope to be at Pickering later this month for the North York Moors Railway autumn gala for more photographs!
On my trip, the closest I came to a train was finding a railway track and a whimsical train decor in a garden. South Africa no longer really has a railway that works - at moment
September 9th, 2022
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There might be a pause in using steam on the main line at York, but on the edge of the Moors it's a different story, as the next post will show.
Ian
On my trip, the closest I came to a train was finding a railway track and a whimsical train decor in a garden. South Africa no longer really has a railway that works - at moment