The North Devon Line
Barnstaple, North Devon, England
another "content over style" heritage web page from Steve Johnson`s "Cyberheritage"
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
Carlisle, Hexham, Wolverhampton, Edinburgh
Hexham Wolverhampton Carlisle
click above to enlarge - all 1987, apart from D-200 ~ 1985
all taken 1985 to summer 1987
Summer 1987 saw my son and I heading off on a rail enthusiast's holiday around some of the UK. I wanted to give my son the thrill and excitement of travelling on a "sleeper" and watching the world roll by from the comfort of your bed...oh well ..to be precise - couchette! He really loved the feeling of adventure in all this and of course so did I!
We took the sleeper from Bristol Temple Meads station and arrived at Edinburgh Waverley early the next morning - here is 47713. He had a ring doughnut breakfast!
an Edinburgh Waverley scene....1.............2.................3.....................4........................5...(47716).
We then went down to Newcastle and took the train to Carlisle via Hexham.
Carlisle scenes: a DMU for Preston a DMU for Whitehaven a DMU for Newcastle
We stopped a little while at Hexham. We both sat down on a bench, within a jiffy my son was fast asleep...ahhhh, and then he woke up smiling! At Hexham there are some nice semaphores and a rather interesting Signal Box mounted over the track. These two shots show the whole scene very well - they`ll need a little retouching to clean up the dusk specks........1................2........nice shots.
a DMU at Bristol Temple Meads station.
Edinburgh - Summer 1987, my son is 6
