Nightfall

From East to West today.  I left Norwich in sunshine and arrived in Tywyn as the sun was setting over the Lleyn Penninsula ...... the less said the better about the weather en-route!

I picked Ruth up from Shrewsbury where she had spent the night after a 24 hour college assessment in Birmingham.  The college like her, she likes the college, now we have to convince Norfolk Education that it's the right option.  There is nowhere like it in Norfolk but we may still have  a fight on our hands.  I should add that Jacinta spent 24 hours in Birmingham too getting home less than 24 hours before I set off!  An unfortunate coming together of dates led to this most disjointed of weeks.

I am in Wales for the penultimate Talyllyn 150 Gala Weekend.  This weekend we celebrate the work of volunteers in the 1970's when the railway was phenomenally busy (pre cheap Spanish holidays if you remember that far back.)  On Saturday and Sunday we will be running the 1970's peak timetable of ten trains a day .... 2016 peak sees just six trains a day.  I started volunteering here in 1976 and remember those days well, so guarding trains this weekend will be a trip down memory lane in more ways than one.

Hard to choose from the sequence of shots as the sun went down.  As an extra you can see the golden globe as it dipped into the horizon a minute or two before the main blip.