Saturday 8 December 2012

Old rite train

This is locomotive 34067 'Tangmere' crossing the River Adur at Shoreham at 9.20 this morning. A chilly morning, with the river at nearly low tide.





If you look at the movie full size, you should clearly see the neo-gothic Lancing College chapel and the much-filmed art-deco Shoreham Airport terminal building which often appears on period productions (often standing for Croydon Airport) and dramas, such as Poirot. At the end of the train is a diesel locomotive; not to push, but to provide heating for the carriages.

(okay, perhaps not so clear; the precision lost something in the uploading—you'll have to take my word for it!)

3 comments:

Singalong said...

"Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl nexr door". ?

Mick said...

I presume this is the "Bullied Pacific" old rite.

I further deduct that the diesel locomotive, of the new rite, is there for "mutual enrichment" !

Fr William R. Young said...

Ah, steam liturgy! But nostalgia ain't what it used to be. The diesel!