saturday the 28th of may marked another outing for me but none like any other. i got up early to head to the isle of wight steam railway on none other than the isle of wight. started well by getting my FCC to london to get the piccadilly line and the northern line to waterloo station where i made my way to portsmouth harbour to catch the ferry to ryde on the isle of wight where i got 1938 stock to smallbrook junction where steam engine no. 24 Calbourne was waiting for us. from there i got on the steam railway where 8 Freshwater, E4 473 and Beatie Well Tank 30858 were also running. havenstreet had the most action and is also where the railway's HQ is. despite late running i had a pretty good time on this nice little railway, on my visit they were celebrating their 40th aniversary which was really nice. the return followed the same route to london however i decided to go via shanklin on the island to clear all it's lines. in london i took the bakerloo line then got on the victoria line where i was lucky enough to catch 1967 stock back to king's cross where because of signalling problems my home bound train turned out to be the 20:00 to newcastle with a HST rather than what i'd originally planned.
despite of this and the gig afterwards being slightly poor i still had a brilliant time
despite of this and the gig afterwards being slightly poor i still had a brilliant time
