It’s amazing what you see when wandering about a town on an early summer’s evening.

A train track in someone’s garden.

Unfortunately I couldn’t get far enough back to get it all in one photo:-

This was the reason we went to Fort William.

My work colleagues had given me a voucher for two tickets on an excursion from Fort William to Mallaig on the Jacobite Steam train run by West Coast Railways. This is the train that features as the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films.

We hadn’t been on a steam train since we took the boys on the one at Bo’ness in the long ago.

That British Railways logo is a cracker.

It’s reminiscent of the one used for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-25.

See more images of the Wembley Lion here.

When we debarked at Mallaig Station the footplatemen were hard at work shovelling coal on the Jacobite’s coal tender.

The end of the line at Mallaig:-

On 7^th Jun in Beveridge Park I took these photos of the small train which occasionally plies its way round a loop of track to the northern end of the Park. They don’t get this train out very often – or else I’m not there when they do. There was a small queue waiting for a ride, not all of them children.

You may remember some years ago I posted a photo of the fountain in Beveridge Park with its water frozen. For a while the pool around the fountain seemed devoid of fish. It must have been restocked because I was able to get this shot of quite a few carp. I was lucky with this. Unless the sun’s angle is right it’s difficult to see the fish.