I'm always grateful for your railroad photos, Alex. I guess that I'm part of the generation of Americans whose image of the UK railroads was formed watching old movies like the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes series and some of the old Hitchcock flicks. Even the train in "A Hard Day's Night" looks...well...just cool and interesting to me. It's very reassuring that you folks over there seem to have a certain reverence for the railroad tradition and keep those old trains in shape and run them once in a while so that people don't forget them.

My own experience with the rails in the UK was back in the late seventies when I took the train from Harwich to London after coming over from Holland. All my wife wanted to do was to get to London and a nice hotel but I must have looked like a total tourist as I looked around the train with a big, dumb smile on my face.

If/when I ever get over there, I hope that the timing coincides with some of these vintage train excursions so I'd have a chance to go on one or two of them.

Thanks again.

Best

AA