63395 and crew

I have just completed the job of captioning the images of North York Moors Railway steam taken during a week long stay in Whitby.   If it had been up to me, I would have been out somewhere along the line every day, but as I was with my wife Elaine and four other firends, I was only let loose every other day!   Having said that, I must once again thank friends Phil, Judi, Kaikers and Geoff for their 60th birthday gift of a return footplate trip from Pickering to Grosmont on Q6 class 0-8-0 No. 63395.   The photo above shows me (on the left) with the loco's fireman and driver at Grosmont.   I hadn't even seen 63395 in steam before, so it was a special treat indeed to ride on the footplate.

I will soon be adding some galleries of purely scenic images from my travels, as its high time that I started to diversify a bit in my photographic efforts.   It goes without saying that images of Whitby and the North York Moors will be the first to feature in the new collection.