lunchtime at the bluebell railway

it is lucky for me that my current round takes me past the bluebell railway as i go from ockenden manor to ashdown park

i took my half-hour break at horsted keynes station, paying this feller a whole pound for my platform ticket

money well spent !

i was just in time to see the arrival and departure of two lovely old steam trains

loose change at horsted keynes

 

good advice

 

Sssssss !

 

the train now arriving at platform two ...

 

i suppose its some kind of pump thingy

 

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quietly hauling her train up the hill from horsted station

if she isn't an old templecombe stalwart, i'll eat my anorak !

 

southern region coffin carrier

 

horsted keynes hospitality ... a tempting coal fire but it was time to get back to work

 

red enough for two

 

battersea power station

on my way home i stopped to take a picture of the power station from queenstown road just below chelsea bridge

then i decided to cycle up to hyde park ....

 

chelsea bridge lamp stand

 

pump house chimbley ... slightly cross-eyed

 

smoking or non-smoking ?

 

non-allergenic felines in sloane street

 

mythical party people at edinburgh gate

 

the albert memorial ... who said taste had anything to do with it ?

 

... count the golden angels

 

queen's gate ... red-leaded & ready for painting

i'd love to have seen the foundry that made these gates ... & met the workers

they must have taken huge satisfaction from the job

 

i wanted to go home and fetch my paints

taxi drivers' den near queen's gate

 

the hereford arms ... they don't make 'em like they used to !

 

a chelsea houseboat with matching life belt

it must be nearly time for madonna to star in the remake of metropolis, and here's chelsea power station crying out to be used

 

dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty