Swanage Railway

Last Saturday we spent a freezing day in Swanage.  This was the second of the 'Beast From the East' weather episodes and the sky was grey, sea was grey and really stormy.  There was snow too, not a lot but enough to whiten the hills in the Purbecks slightly and while in town it was falling horizontally!

Anyway after going in and out of the shops and visiting a coffee shop to keep warm we went for a ride on Swanage Railway up to Corfe Castle and back.  David volunteers as a signalman on the railway but its not often that he actually travels on a train.

Here's some photos that I took

The steam train operation was 80104,  made in 1955, the year David and I were born.  As well a carriages it was also pulling an observation car.

 There was another engine just outside the sheds which was fired up ready for the Spring Steam Gala which is this weekend.

There is an artist whose house overlooks the railway and she created an artwork on the wall of her garden.

I also enjoyed some of the railway posters both vintage and modern, really artistic

 Beating the traffic by going by train

 And what's happening now and coming soon

And while on the train I came across an old metal advert advertising sewing machines in Weymouth almost hidden by a shrub.