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Originally Posted by LMSman
I can't really be in dispute with what has been achieved in preserving this heritage, I do love to see and experience these machines, from the diminutive Ffestiniog stock through to main line expresses and the carriage sets, but it is, and I admit, has to be, a utopia which is being shown. but where is the equivalent of the ...
"Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, ..." (Masefield) being shown for those who never experienced it?.
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I don't have much of an opinion on this, but I am not that keen on seeing locos in unauthentic liveries, but I'll make an exception for the Hogwarts variation as I am sure it bought massive cash rewards for the owners and helped to create an interest in railways.
I know what you mean with the Masefield quote, I remember steam days well and worked professionally on them for a while.
I'd love to have a time machine sometimes, but even a presereved railway is nothing like those days we can never fully create the past except through our imagination.