What a Ringside Seat This Is

Here, courtesy of Julie Johnson was Steele, is a lovely shot of last evening's Cathedrals Express racing home through Settle en route to Colchester hauled by locomotive Galatea:

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The house is the Stationmaster's House, now the home of neighbours Les and Val Barlow.

The camera freezes the action but the trains will be doing around 60mph on this downhill stretch.   Not everybody likes trains  but we do.   How fortunate are we to have sights like this on our doorstep?