The year is 1992, the first weekend of December and it's a cold frosty but beautifully clear Sunday morning. The unmistakable lumpy idle of a 1.9 205 GTI wakes up the sleepy yard on the EJ&KLR as the first of the volunteers arrive for a day of winter maintenance on the line.
The lines vintage Austrian steam locomotive is wrapped up warm inside the engine shed but the trusty diesel shunter can be seen cold outside, as you park up the car just off the platform and walk over to the shed.
The shed doors are heavy and the ironwork cold in this weather, but they swing open slowly and you cast a glance back at the 205, still ticking and pinging after the 'spirited' drive through the twisty country lanes on this perfect cold winters morning, before heading deeper into the shed to put the kettle on in the mess with a day of hard graft out on the line in front of you.
Narrative and sketches by me - my other passion is French hot hatches!
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