Monday, 27 December 2021

Musing Around the Museum

While we’re here, we take a quick look around the railway memorabilia inside the museum. There’s a donation to get in and it consists mainly of two or three rooms joined together, mainly with large models of locomotives and pictures of team trains and volunteers mounted on the wall. I’ve got no idea why this particular sign caught my attention. Maybe I was baffled at the time that bridges couldn’t suffice to carry a motor car, but then it could be a small bridge solely for the purpose of allowing a farmer to access his property from one side of the line to the other. The museum is also big on signage and preserves posters advertising destinations to day-trippers and tourist, as well as a showcase of tools used to preserve the railway alongside everyday artefacts of their time. You certainly get a sense of a time gone by but maybe they’ve overdone the preservation a bit. 

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