Description: People searching for great scones & great places to enjoy them.
Hello again.
I finally got down to Trainworks at Thirlmere recently and spent a delightful few hours exploring the displays and umpteen old carriages and engines but sadly there were no scones. The Thirlmere Festival of Steam 2016 is on Saturday & Sunday the 5 & 6th of March if you love trains or want to ride steam trains there are lots of options. Heritage Express is running plenty of steam rides and I also hope to try the Kiama Picnic Train too. Or perhaps there’s the Oberon Steam & Village Fair 2016 which is on Febru
After my recent trip on the Southern Aurora, I wondered why I have such a fascination with trains. Beyond the fact that they are such marvellous examples of human ingenuity, trains are a tangible link to our past. I realised that my sense of wonder was evoked much earlier when my family visited the Steam Tramway which used to run in Parramatta Park. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by fire in 1993. Parramatta Park Tram 103A has been restored by the Valley Heights Steam Tramway which is also restoring Parrama