Unusual, perhaps unprecedented, the Sandite train stopped at Settle station yesterday early evening for an hour or more:
Sandite? I hear you cry. A mixture of sand and antifreeze, used for assisting rail traction adhesion during extreme weather. Sandite S4 also contains steel shot to assist track-circuit operation. It had stopped at Settle, necessarily blocking the up line, because of flooding on the line to the south. Where better than Settle to stop anyway? Toilets, good conversation and coffee. It eventually moved away northwards, wrong line, towards Blea Moor in darkness.
This was our view of all this excitement from our roof room viewing platform, through its rain swept windows. Note the handrail which is dead level, demonstrating that the train is on an uphill 1:100 slope, left to right.
I do believe this is just about the dullest posting I have done in quite a while. You need to know that I have just been accepted as a member of Facebook's Dull Men's Club (212+K members incidentally). I may just try them with this post to check if I am on the right wavelength.
Update. It was rejected.
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