Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-05-11 08:36:51 - Graham Ellis
A lovely day out in Minehead yesterday ... an excursion by train from Westbury, organised by The Railway Children Charity, on a train loaned free of charge by First Great Western for the day, track access costs waived by Network Rail and by the West Somerset Railway, time given for free by all the staff concerned, sponsorship of the buffet and raffles by various people / companies - meant that all the money taken goes to the charity without an initial admin layer.
Minehead is a lovely town to choose as the destination for such an excursion, and I have returned with too many lovely pictures to do them all justice, and so many happy memories that I'm looking to record just a few of them here and on other pages before I hit this week's Python and PHP courses.
"Minehead Marauder" - ah - the name of the special train! I have posted some slightly more rail related pictures here
A lovely day out in Minehead yesterday ... an excursion by train from Westbury, organised by The Railway Children Charity, on a train loaned free of charge by First Great Western for the day, track access costs waived by Network Rail and by the West Somerset Railway, time given for free by all the staff concerned, sponsorship of the buffet and raffles by various people / companies - meant that all the money taken goes to the charity without an initial admin layer.
Minehead is a lovely town to choose as the destination for such an excursion, and I have returned with too many lovely pictures to do them all justice, and so many happy memories that I'm looking to record just a few of them here and on other pages before I hit this week's Python and PHP courses.