Buckets

In Shropshire for the Easter weekend and we decided to head out just before lunchtime. We drove to Oswestry and decided to take a trip on the Cambrian Heritage Railway which runs steam and diesel railway services from here. It seems this might have been the first week of the new service. The railway at Oswestry in North Shropshire was a victim of the Beeching cuts in the 1960s but this month some volunteers have reopened a passenger railway service that hasn’t existed for over 50 years. 

The end of the line is Weston Wharf where this picture of the fire buckets was taken. Oliver and Amber did the Easter egg hunt - but even the adults failed to find one of the eggs. Nontheless, appropriate egg prizes were given out and everybody was happy.  

Weston Wharf is also where there is a buffet car using an old LNER mk3 carriage parked on the siding which looks very impressive but next door is a pub and restaurant, Stone House Brewery, which is where we all had lunch.  As the train frequency did not quite match our eating patterns, Jez and Dad ran for a return train while the rest of us finished lunch.