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Our industrial heritage still evokes all sorts of wistful sighing and inspires many a conservation zealot across this country. so overrun as it is by bland, corporate, homogenised, chain-store offerings.

But none so much as the victorian splendour of steam choo-chooery, with its dragon-like ventings of hot gases, massive iron steeds and an almost hedonistic aura of adventure.

Hurrah for those gnarled veterans of real smuts, and their star-struck acolytes who maintain and share their passion for a time I was never part of, but wish I was.