Express to Blackpool

The Blackpool express has come in on platform five, and everybody waiting has shuffled forward at once. 45706 stands at the head of it in green paintwork with a red bufferbeam, steam drifting up under the canopy, and two railwaymen have come out by the signal box to watch it arrive.

A small boy in a sun hat has his bucket and spade ready before he is anywhere near the sea, another has a toy yacht under his arm, and the suitcases are already stacked at their feet!