South Tyne Railway

The walk from Alston Station along the railway line turned out to be Amy´s favourite morning walk. I had plenty of time to check out the best spots for taking photos of the steam train which is only running on weekends. After all the family arrived they decided to take a ride on the train on the Sunday. So I positioned myself underneath the bridge for when they left Alston station. I was surprised to see the steam engine being the wrong way round at the front of the train but I kept shooting away and after they spotted me they all started waving. I had plenty of time while they enjoyed the train journey to make it to location number 2 and passed away the waiting time for the train by taking some photos of the flowers around. When they finally arrived I got good shots of the train coming back towards Alston after having left Kirkhaugh. We kept in touch via Whatsapp so everybody was excited to spot me and wave again.