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Lewes steam train service

On 14 Jul 2011 at 10:34am Well Chuffed wrote:

Well that was pretty impressive this morning. The number of old farts twitching away with their cameras on platform 2, constantly ignoring the desperate pleas of Southern rail staff to ask them to step away from the edge of the platform. The amount of barging and shoving to get a good photographic spot was amusing, and people say young people are bad mannered.
The train itself was impressively long as well, not seen that many carriages being pulled before (although it was cheating with a diesel engine at the back)
It's back about 11pm this evening apparently if you want another [night time] shot

On 14 Jul 2011 at 1:12pm stick cutter wrote:

Fantastic sight . I viewed it from the riverbank at Landport .

On 14 Jul 2011 at 9:58pm the old mayor wrote:

Not very well publicised was it.1st we saw was on the 6 o/c news. Shame Still Old Norman Baker first in the queue.

On 14 Jul 2011 at 10:28pm Cliffe Hanger wrote:

Do I detect a note of grumpiness there, Old Mayor? It was advertised on this forum a few months back.

On 14 Jul 2011 at 11:40pm the old mayor wrote:

Anoraks!! lol

On 15 Jul 2011 at 8:26am Vesbod wrote:

Aw, missed that. I grew up amidst steam trains in the Rhymney Valley during the 50s. Perhap sthis can be dvertised in Viva next time......

On 15 Jul 2011 at 8:28am Vesbod wrote:

Found this on YouTube :-
h++p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcffDSce03I

On 15 Jul 2011 at 9:18am WellChuffed wrote:

I heard it building up the head of steam to roll out of Lewes about 11:20pm - a night shot would have been nice but so was my sofa

On 15 Jul 2011 at 10:07am Extra wrote:

I was the author of the original post several months ago. The compnay
running steam excursions are Steam Dreams and further details are
available at CatherdralsExpress.co.uk or 01483 209888.