For the past month or so, there has been something going on each weekend. No bad thing, as this has helped me to cope with the huge amounts of change going on just now. This week however, I was exhausted and after a trip to the pub last night to celebrate our first week in the Town Hall, not in the mood for an early start. Luckily, there was a lot going on locally - 47s to Minehead, 50s and 67s to Penzance and D1015 heading for South Wales.
Set out earlier than I'd planned for Bristol. Bright sunshine, in the wrong place for photography, but nice nonetheless. Planned to watch the 47s arrive, then hop on a Cardiff-bound train. Temple Meads very quiet, but bumped into a couple of regulars just in time for the ailing 47316 to lead 47828 on a rake of ex-West Coast Mk 3 stock which included Cotswold's newly liveried buffet car.
Spent too much time chatting and watching the locomotives swap positions for the remainder of the journey down to Minehead. By my calculations I ought to have been able to meet the Western at Newport. As I left for Wales, noted the rather strange Hereford-Paignton charter (formed of two 158s) pass slowly through the station. Arrived to find I'd missed the Western by minutes! Felt very silly. Stayed for a look at Godfrey Road and some reinstated 60s. Even the usually reasonably good buffet at Newport let me down today!
Arrived back in Weston, and decided to make a dash around town trying to pick up photo frames, books and some other things I'd meant to buy all week. Ended up feeling utterly frustrated by crowds of lingering holidaymakers, and bought the wrong things. A strangely irritating day.
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
