We were on the commercial railway, heading toward Shanklin. It was a bit of a mixed day. Breakfast in a cafe just across from Shanklin station, which was very nice. Then a walk through the town centre and on down to the waterfront. I hadn’t appreciated how high up we were.
We got the cliff lift back up. By then I’d had to confess that my leg was hurting, so we decided to head back to the train, luckily the path back was fairly level. I had to buy some painkillers and Voltarol. Which both worked quite well.
Instead of heading back to the ferry, we got off the train at Smallbrook and transferred across to the steam railway. The trip up to the main station Haven Street Station was interesting, we shared our carriage with a real enthusiast. He was making a point of travelling behind every engine that was running during the gala and was very knowledgeable about the railway.
There was a lot going on at Haven Street, displays, artefacts in the museum and information. There were trains running all the time. The header picture train, called Fenchurch was obviously somebody’s pride and joy. It was immaculately turned out.
As it turns out, my leg was fine, and gave me no further problems, and we were very glad that we took the time out to visit the gala. We headed back to the train for the trip back to Ryde. All in a lovely day.
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