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What is your most memorable train journey?

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  1. National Railway Museum

    National Railway Museum New Member

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    I’m Sally Sculthorpe, an Assistant Interpretation Developer at *the National Railway Museum. I am a new member of the team working on the Station Hall redevelopment.
    In previous blogs we talked about our ambition to bring Station Hall to life by using real stories. In the coming months I will be running story-gathering activities to find out about people’s experiences of travelling and working in stations.
    Alongside this, we will be providing opportunities in Station Hall for visitors to share their stories. This week we installed a ticket board that asks our visitors to take a ticket and tell us about their most memorable train journey.
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    So far, we have had a brilliant response. I thought I’d share some of the memories with you:
    “Going to Cornwall on the train as a kid, being the first one in the family to spot the sea.”
    “Travelling to Venice on the Orient Express to celebrate my husband’s 60[SUP]th[/SUP] birthday – a boyhood dream come true.”
    “Going up Snowdon on the train – in driving rain, you couldn’t see a thing.”
    “Darlington –Penzance. A couple left their baby on the train.”

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    Going to Whitley Bay by train from Leeds via Harrogate and Ripon for a weeks holiday in 1958. An A3 and D49 as far as Northallerton, my first and only double header. Oh how I wish I new the engine numbers but note books destroyed long ago.
     
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    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    Travelling on an RTC tour, with the Rovos Rail Sleeper, on a two week trip from Port Elizabeth, South Africa to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and getting some serious footplate miles on an NC25.
     
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    My first trip on the completed WHR last july!!! (Port-Caernarfon and back!)whaooooo!money well spent:love:
    regards
    noel
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Bodmin to Wenfordbridge in a brake van ... gravity shunting at Boscarne ... stopping for snap break in Pencarrow Woods ... three empties to Wenford, two full to come back!!
     
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    Spamcan81 Nat Pres stalwart

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    How to choose one of many?
    Riding the footplate of the lead steam loco on a double headed freight over the Jing Peng Pass in China.
     
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    60017 Resident of Nat Pres Friend

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    For me, footplate journeys on 60019, 60024 and 60034 along various bits of the Glasgow - Aberdeen route in 1965 and 1966.
     
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    hussra New Member

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    My first footplate ride, on the footplate of "Tyrone" on the (now closed) Shane's Castle Railway, running round at Shane's Castle station. I was 3.
     
    hussra, 4 Ian 2012
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