Sunday in Yorkshire - North Yorks Moors Railway.

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I think the NYMR deserves a whole post to itself - such a good day out. We got to Pickering only to find that it was difficult to park at the railway, but we found another car park within walking distance, and then had lunch in a little tea-room overlooking the railway station while we waited for the next train.



The up train was a diesel - we didn't take its picture - but here are D-d and S2C in their seats on the train - the carriages are 'preserved' as well as the engines.



The guard came around to check our tickets - he looked exactly as a guard on an old steam train should!



These are simply views taken out of the window, to give you some idea of the countryside -







When we got to Grosmont we discovered that we could go back down behind one of the most famous British steam engines of all time - the Sir Nigel Gresley. As I said to someone in my comments to my post on Sunday, this is a bit like going to take a ferry between islands in New York and finding that today the run is being done by the Queen Mary!

So - two pics of S2C with his favourite engine of all time -





And a couple of pictures taken at Goatland on the way down - I just really liked the second one -





And finally - this is the engine driver, when we got to Pickering - it was warm...





We went out tonight for a meal at a nicely informal place that does Tex-Mex food - I am totally stuffed.

Tomorrow is D-d's actual graduation ceremony - after it we will go out for a rather posh meal - the pictures might take me a little while!!

Comments

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I think the nearest one to Skipton and Harrogate is the Embsay and Bolton Abbey line - which is shorter than the NYMR. There is also the Keighley and Worth Valley, but it is a bit nearer Leeds, I think, than Harrogate.

I will let you know about the speaker - I'm not even sure yet who it is. It must be a bit repetitive for whoever it is as there are about ten ceremonies over two days!