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Aln Valley Railway – July 2019 – part 3

December 1, 2019November 25, 2019Posted in Adventures, Fuji, FujiX-T2, History, people, photography, UncategorizedTagged adventure, Aln Valley Railway, fraggle, FujiX-T2, landscape, Northumberland, photography, UK, WW225 Comments

Part 1 HERE Part 2 HERE

There was plenty of interesting train and WW2 paraphenalia to look at and photograph

I thought this would make a nice biscuit tin!

There was also a concert and these ladies were called the Seatones and did a cracking job of singing 40’s songs

This chap was a bit of a character

and I had to get a shot of the rear parcel shelf of his car

So that’s the end of our day out at the Aln Valley Railway.

All pictures by me and embiggenable with a click.

Full album can be viewed HERE

Stay tooned for our next adventure, when we visited Dunston Staiths.

Aln Valley Railway – July 2019 – Part 2

November 24, 2019November 18, 2019Posted in Adventures, Event, Fuji, FujiX-T2, landscape, people, people, UncategorizedTagged adventure, Aln Valley Railway, fraggle, FujiX-T2, landscape, Northumberland, photography, re-enactors, UK34 Comments

Part 1 HERE

After we rode on the train, Sophie and I photographed the WW2 re-enactors and bits and bobs around the station.

Dad’s Army

Stay tooned for Part 3!

Aln Valley Railway – July 2019 – Part 1

November 17, 2019November 16, 2019Posted in Adventures, Event, Fuji, FujiX-T2, landscape, museum, people, photography, UncategorizedTagged adventure, Aln Valley Railway, fraggle, FujiX-T2, landscape, Northumberland, photography, UK28 Comments

While Sophie and I were visiting the Stephenson Heritage Railway, (post on that HERE) a gentleman saw us taking pictures, and came over to tell us we might like to visit the heritage railway that he was involved in, the Aln Valley Railway. Great idea we thought, and we decided to go when they also had a war re-enactment thing going on.

The aim of the volunteers is to reopen the Alnwick to Alnmouth railway line. The original station in Alnwick is now home to Barter Books

so a brand new railway station and visitor center has been constructed by volunteers on the outskirts of Alnwick from where the railway follows the original trackbed towards Alnmouth Station.

The first thing we did was have a ride on the train.