Railway Flowers

One of the things I love about preserved railway lines is that the stations have been meticulously planted and cultivated back to their original (and probably better than original!) standards. So following on from last week's pictures of the locos, this week's images are of the flowers of Blue Anchor.



Photos taken 13/06/2009 at Blue Anchor station on the West Somerset Railway

And Now For Something Completely Different

The West Somerset Railway were having a mixed traffic weekend. As a long time loco fan (I was always the girl who wanted the Hornby railway set rather than the doll's house), I decided to mosey on down to Blue Anchor and take a look.

MOSTLY, the locos they were running were various brands of diesel...

Western Courier

The Devonian on her approach into Blue Anchor station
A pair of shunters (possibly nicknamed Teddy Bears - but don't hold me to that!) get passenger duty

...but the star of the show (and the reason I wanted to go) was Tornado, the newly built A1 Pacific, who'd been visiting the West Somerset for a couple of weeks prior to.

On her approach

And preparing to steam away on to Minehead

And my; wasn't she gorgeous *grin*

Photos taken 13/06/2009 at Blue Anchor station on the West Somerset Railway

Rhododendrons II

Because I did end up with a lot of photos from Bowood, here are a selection of other photos...

Photos taken 24/05/09 at the Bowood House Rhododendron Walks

Rhododendrons

Life took a turn for the chaotic at the beginning of May (hence the lack of posts). To celebrate things settling down again (at the end of May), we went to visit Bowood House's Rhododendron walks for a day out, to get out of the house for some time...and to see some really beautiful flowers.



Photos taken 24/05/09 at the Bowood House Rhododendron Walks