Paul Oldham wrote: > On 06/05/06 00:05 Martin Thorne wrote: > > >> Oops, with all this election business I almost forgot about it. >> >> There is another steam train passing Milton on Sunday, on its way to & from >> Norwich. [...] >> > > Did anyone go and look at this. I confess we didn't. It was raining the > first time it crossing and it was supper time the second time and as it > was one we'd seen before we didn't bother. > > I was chatting to my Dad (a real steam train buff) about it later in the > evening and he said it wasn't surprising that we'd seen it before, > there's only a few trains which are allowed to run on "BR" lines (he > thought seven) so you tend to see the same few over and over. > > There was a small crowd braving the rain, but it was a diesel and no-one took any photos. Regards JohnT