Just a mile away from where I live there’s a narrow gauge steam railway! This is the Longleat Railway, a 15" line that runs for about a mile in a balloon loop. The attention to detail is superb, with a well designed station, engine shed and signalbox. The line itself includes a lakeside run, tunnel, bridges and embankments. It’s one of the few lines in the UK where you can see pelicans, gorillas, hippos and sealions.
Until very recently most trains were hauled by Ceawlin, a steam-outline diesel loco, but the line has just taken delivery of a new real steam engine, named John Hayton, the man responsible for most of the work of creating and running the line.
The working signalbox is a notable feature at Longleat station.
An outward-bound train skirts the dragonfly pond.
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