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Anthony Boydell
United Kingdom
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Railway games are an astonishing phenomena in the gaming world - just looks at the variety and complexity: from the family-friendliness of Ticket to Ride through the more complex shenanigans of Age of Steam/Steam to the ridiculous, time-swallowing share madness that is the 18xx family.
Why do trains have such an enduring appeal?
Simple...because they're a fantastic representation of nature's power harnessed and directed; because we all love building and we love interconnections...and because those great steam beasts make noises like snorting dragons as they power and puff passed!
I mention this because today I embarked on a traditional holiday 'day out': a 4 mile walk through woodland and valley, through stream and gritted pathway, from the village of Goathland (Hogsmead station in the first Harry Potter movie) to Grosmont and then riding the train across the North Yorkshire Moors to Pickering and back. All of this done in wonderful weather - bright, hot and blue-skied! Dusty, coal-y steam blowing in your face as you belt along great cracks in the landscape, over boulder-filled becks and through sleepy villages comprised solely of holiday cottages. Five hours of ambling, rambling, child-on-the-shoulder-carrying, puff-puff-puffing delight!
If you hate railway games, then you ain't never been on a real railway!
A lost Eskdale Bridge
Rusted Majesty approaching Grosmont Station
Perhaps the best view in the world...Grosmont (the final approach) - the walk is nearly over and train ride is about to begin!
Its a steaming big engine!
Beautiful junk
Approaching Pickering (outbound)
Approaching Goathland (inbound)
A Guards van (Goathland)
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