ext_17156 ([identity profile] ningloreth.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] curiouswombat 2011-05-25 07:57 am (UTC)

What a wonderful trip!

Part of the fun is that feeling of being in a luxurious bubble as the world travels past you (which, for some reason, you don't get when you're commuting to work)! Your photos really capture that.

I love the picture of the fireman at the end. As you say, it really shows the effect of shovelling for 205 miles. He must be so fit! (It's a sobering thought that steam power was totally dependent on human muscle -- the steam just made it go further. Imagine travelling to Australia on a steamship!)

I once went from Settle to Carlisle, over that viaduct, on the Sir Nigel Gresley, which is an A4 Pacific. There were men with cameras all along that route, too. (But we had to take our own sandwiches).

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