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Steaming Through Devon part 2

11/25/2018

Today's adventure starts at Buckfastleigh, travels through the Devon countryside to Totnes, and ends back where it began. It's a story of two towns linked by two journeys on a steam train. A physical trip, but also a journey into the past. While the route is the same as the one that I took last year (see my earlier blog, March 2017), and all of the pictures were taken with Fuji cameras, the photos are different. Steam trains are mechanical dragons, with their skins of iron and their hunger
The golden age of steam lives on in South Devon

03/29/2017

Alongside the River Dart throughout the summer, the hiss of steam and the rumble of machinery can be heard, reminding us that, for some, this is still a golden age for travel. Every year the South Devon Railway carries thousands of passengers through the glorious Devon landscape between its two stations at Buckfastleigh and Totnes, and a couple of weeks ago my wife and I were lucky enough to be amongst them. We have been taking this journey in March for years, and every time it is a different