Today we made the short trek to Wansford where the world famous Thomas the Tank Engine lives. This week he was making special runs from Wansford to Yarwell Junction (which is only about 3 miles or so).
Addison was so excited to get her Thomas train set for her birthday and super excited to meet him in person. We got to pose with Thomas as he got ready to take us on our trip.
Since Thomas is a smaller "steamie" engine so he pulls a few of the old fashion passenger cars. I think we were sitting in one of the old First Class private cars which must have been the lap of luxury in it's hay days.
It was fun walking down the little hallways past all the private cars and imagine what it would have been like to travel many, many years ago.
The kids really loved getting to ride on the short trip through tunnels and through the beautiful country side. When we got back, Thomas needed a little looking after before his next run for the day so we watched as the engineers fixed under his tummy by the station house.
We sat and waited a bit while the other big steam engine came into the station to pick up the passenger cars to bring them into Peterborough. It cost about 6 GBP for adults on the Thomas ride and to ride into Peterborough would have been about 12 GBP. We'll have to do the longer trip some other day, but this was enough adventure for our little ones on such a cool morning.
The big steam engine that we saw last week in Ferry Meadows is the same one that picked up the cars and took them away to Peterborough. It was amazing to watch them shovel the coal into the fire the heated the boiler to make the immense amount of steam needed to power the engine. At one point a really long blast of steam came out the top of the train and it was followed by the loudest of noises that it really hurt my ears so I don't know what it did for the kids.
Overall a great experience and great day visiting Thomas and his friends and hopefully not our last!!!
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