Just a quick post today to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I seem to be a bit lacking in the 'Christmas blog post photo' department so here's another shot from the Great Central Railway winter steam gala in January 2013, this time of Great Western Railway 2884 class 2-8-0 no.3803 (visiting from the South Devon Railway) running around its train at Leicester North in the snow…
GWR 2884 class 2-8-0 at Leicester North station, 25/1/13
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
Then suddenly I heard a tiny voice speak,
'You lazy old s*d, you've not blogged anything in weeks!'
(with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)
So instead of three Kings from the east let me wish you all the compliments of the season with a suitably wintry image of one King from the west.
GWR 6000 class 4-6-0, 6023 KING EDWARD II, 25/01/13
The Great Western Railway's KING EDWARD II to be precise… Photographed in the snow at Loughborough Central station during the Great Central Railway's winter steam gala in January this year.
So I'll just finish this brief entry with the last line from Clement Clarke Moore's poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas'
'Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.'
