Flying Scotsman

Today's the day .......................... to indulge

What have I done to him?

Will used to be (relatively) sane before I infected him with the 'steam engine bug'.  If you'd have told him a few years back that he would have traipsed off on a Saturday morning to the middle of nowhere (see below), trudged up through a soaking wet field of surprised sheep, just to indulge me in my attempts to get a picture of the Flying Scotsman  on its way up to Carlisle - he'd have told you 'No way ...!'  But that's what he did today.

The results were not spectacular because the weather was not conducive to good photography - and we probably weren't in the best place - but we'll do better next time.  And in the meantime, see below for a picture taken by one of my Carnforth Station colleagues - just as this beautiful engine, now in its proper green livery, set off to tackle the incline up to Oxenholme and beyond ....................