We went to Eastleigh Lakeside Country Park on Saturday and took a trip on the train to celebrate my daughter's first birthday. Here she is pointing at a fine little Garratt. The railway runs from one side of the park to the other and has a return loop at both ends. This picture was taken at Monks Brook Halt (though you can't get to the brook from here). There is a small playground here and we also walked round one of the lakes. The round trip is about a mile long - we took the return trip on behind a Royal Scot which they seemed to be having some problems with. In fact they replaced it with a diesel for the last train of the day when we got back to the main station. It was an enjoyable afternoon out on the railway and it was good to have an excuse to ride on it.
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What a great railway for a tinyperson. Here we have a 15" line in the local park but it has the failing (to me at any rate) that it won't stop and drop you off, and doesn't take pushchairs, so you can only go round and round. It's a nice ride though and has a pair of thumping great pacifics to boot.
It is a good line - the last coach even had somewhere to put a pushchair (though we didn't have one with us). I found an aerial view of the railway on flickr.
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