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No, sadly this is not a thread about the Trulli Train. :shock: :( I have a friend from church who is a strong F1 fan (he has previously been to the British Grand Prix and I believe he is going to Monza this year), and also enjoys his steam train rides. I know this last fact because both of us went to a special running of a steam train on the District line in London a month or two ago, from Ealing Broadway to High Street Kensington. It was a good day, albeit a bit expensive. Last summer, I also enjoyed rides on the Festiniog Railway and the South Tynsdale Railway.

Is anybody else here a fan of heritage/steam trains?
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I can put my hand up and say that I am a train enthusiast as well (though some people may already know that ;) ).
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Gertrand Bachot wrote:I can put my hand up and say that I am a train enthusiast as well (though some people may already know that ;) ).

So I didn't know that. Do you have a favourite railway line? Any lines you would like to go to but haven't done so yet?
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dr-baker wrote:
Gertrand Bachot wrote:I can put my hand up and say that I am a train enthusiast as well (though some people may already know that ;) ).

So I didn't know that. Do you have a favourite railway line? Any lines you would like to go to but haven't done so yet?

Not sure on that one - I've done the whole length of the East Coast Main Line (KGX-Edinburgh), and about half of the Midland Main Line (St Pancras-East Midlands Parkway), and the lines around my local area, but I guess everywhere I haven't been to yet.

I don't really have a favourite railway line.
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I've done the East Kent Railway.

I've volunteered at the Chatham Historic Dockyard Railway just for fun a few times.
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Faustus wrote:I've done the East Kent Railway.

I've volunteered at the Chatham Historic Dockyard Railway just for fun a few times.

Volunteering at a railway sounds fun. 6-year-old me would have been ecstatic at the thought! I'm going to have to Google that railway at some point, haven't heard of it.
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dr-baker wrote:
Faustus wrote:I've done the East Kent Railway.

I've volunteered at the Chatham Historic Dockyard Railway just for fun a few times.

Volunteering at a railway sounds fun. 6-year-old me would have been ecstatic at the thought! I'm going to have to Google that railway at some point, haven't heard of it.


It's a very small railway inside what's left of Chatham Dockyard. I volunteered in the workshops working on whatever came up, which included one of the steam engines and a steam tug.
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I'm not much into trains, but i have a thing for abandoned railways somehow...

(and lego trains)
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This wrote:I'm not much into trains, but i have a thing for abandoned railways somehow...

(and lego trains)

I can understand the appeal, I think. (Defo the Lego and model railways.)
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Hoping to ride this train at the end of next week: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4J6c5a39M
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