tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post8681729559052919286..comments2024-03-28T11:54:53.075+00:00Comments on Adullamite: Museum RailwaysAdullamitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-24628210984774405742015-11-05T21:00:48.379+00:002015-11-05T21:00:48.379+00:00Lee, Ah yes the specks in the eye still comes with...Lee, Ah yes the specks in the eye still comes with these trains.<br /><br /> Fly, Ah yes trains did enable folks to get about but some do like to keep thinsg in the family...<br /><br />Jenny, I agree, the railways made the country in the 19th century.Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-3393600488830927982015-11-04T08:16:00.803+00:002015-11-04T08:16:00.803+00:00I don't know what it is about steam trains, th...I don't know what it is about steam trains, they sometimes seem more like big animals than bits of technology. When we talk about the internet I always think about the Victorians and the railways - that must have affected everyday life just as much. Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-68612241263150621542015-11-04T02:55:06.386+00:002015-11-04T02:55:06.386+00:00I remember reading history of my area in France wh...I remember reading history of my area in France where a tramway ran from the late nineteenth century until just before the war...not only were farmers independent of local markets and the higglers' prices for produce but people started marrying people who were further than a bicycle ride from their village.<br />Mark you that brief period of liberty had not been enough to do much damage to the local inbreeding...when you met someone you were safe with 'Bonjour' but daren't put a name to the person as they all looked alike...the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-60108218184431192812015-11-03T21:26:07.816+00:002015-11-03T21:26:07.816+00:00The old steam engines/trains....beautiful reminder...The old steam engines/trains....beautiful reminders of our history. They were a part of my early childhood...we'd go from Gympie to Mackay by train and so often would get flecks of coal dust in our eyes...but it never seemed to worry us as we rattled along the rail lines moving in rhythm to the melody of the carriages being pulled along by the chug-chug-chugging steam engine..Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.com