Tuesday, July 03, 2012

April 2012: A tiny train in Ruislip

We went for a little train ride, literally little and literally small..

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A nice little poster talking about the various engines they have

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The route to the platform. As one can see, the train has left the platform.

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That’s good to know.

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Popped into the ticket office and bought the tickets, we need to be back in 20 minutes, the last train

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Time table, maps, etc. etc. Nice one.

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So we went for a walk and then popped back in to see the train had pulled into the station

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Nice little clock which tells me when the next train will be in…..

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STOP sign, looks like one of those cow branding irons, eh?

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The train turntable..
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The train heads on to the turntable

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Its turned around.

Here is the video caption



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The girls get in

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And the train is back on the other line

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There’s the guard van

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The full train.

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My little cheeky monkey is on board

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Putting the turntable back to where it was

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Mamma is getting into the teasing mode as well.

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She is wriggling her fingers at me

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And now little miss muffet is getting into the game as well.

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The link between the carriages.

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Ok, warning heard…and listened

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We have a buggy wagon Smile



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The railway lines disappearing into the distance

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Off it goes

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And back it comes

See how the entire exercise works


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The tickets

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My cheeky monkey

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Looking back at the train

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And we are off.

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Its a green kind of day

A view of the journey



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Haste Hill? Another stop..

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A railway crossing

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You have been warned

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One of the points

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Another turntable..

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The platform

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We didnt stop but kept on going..

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Looking back

Another view of the journey

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It was a grey overcast day

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Another platform?

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Zipping away…

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Eleanors Loop?

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Curves

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The lake can be seen once in a while

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The other line splits into two, I guess that’s where the workshops are

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We are coming into to final destination

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Sleepers

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Woody Bay station

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Pulling into the station

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Looking back at the train and we got off and started walking..

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Here’s the “beach”. its an artificial beach, and its pouring with rain, not a place to linger

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These two doggies were looking utterly miserable. Not a day for man or for dog, eh?

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See? the beach was more like lake..

We went off sharply, it was raining too hard for me to take pics I am afraid…

One day we will come here when the weather is good Smile

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