Shifting Sands: A Day Trip to Somerthorpe

(or 'Notes from an enthusiast's diary'...)

Part of shiftingsands.fotopic.revisited

Based on material posted to www.shiftingsands.fotopic.net on 18th May 2008.

'We decided to head to the coast today, as we went to Cleethorpes only a fortnight ago I suggested to my wife we went to Somerthorpe instead. "Somerwhere?" she asked, "I bet there's a railway there isn't there?" Not replying we set off for the sea, and parked up at the south end of the town near the Thorpe Sands holiday park and Funland. A nearby blast of a whistle confirmed my wife's fears... there was a railway here!'

The whistle had come from 'Pandora', the railway's 2-6-2 tank loco...

'Pandora' was ready to depart from Shifting Sands station...

Chatting to the chaps in the shed, they let me have a wander around, and I captured this shot just before 'Pandora' set off...

The diesel loco 'Intrepid' seen from the dunes after I made a steady climb to the top...

'Thunderbolt' is the line's oldest steam loco...

The railway's Ravenglass built tram loco 'Cumbria'...

Don't tell anyone at the council this, but I stood on a litter bin to get this shot of diesel no.3...

Towards the end of the day 'Thunderbolt' and 'Pandora' sit outside the shed...

Finally, 'Cumbria' demonstrates some stock built in the workshop for another railway:

O9 Modeller would like to thank Mick Thornton for his help in creating this page.