Everything and more!
As we left the mainline station at Kidderminster and crossed the road to enter the SVR station it’s like stepping back in time. The place was awash with people of all ages and backgrounds and as we queued to get our tickets the excitement of all present was fever pitched.
The smell whiffing from the engines, as they completed one tour, was rustic and reminiscent of bygone day, and the heat of the water pipe of the old girl felt like being in a country of a sultry climate.
I won’t lie, at that moment we were all kids and that was evident by the selfish bliss we all wanted to experience. You do not often encounter these tender emotions much in life but when you do, they stay with you a lifetime.
My son and I boarded the train and made our way to our seat which happen to be at the front of the train, our excitement mirrored each others and as the engines boomed into action and we slowly moved out of the station, the hoot of the whistle and the cries of ‘all aboard’ rang out like being on a movie set. We were off on the adventure of a lifetime, and the next five hours of adoration and fluctuations of emotions that the world cares to throw at us floated from our bones. This was ecstasy.
This was our first bucket list moment and this is what life is about. We work to enable us to experience these moments. The journey was local and familiar as we have travelled this route countlessly although we have never done it on a dame so grand and regal as the Flying Scotsman.
10/10 for the day and 11/10 for my son’s appreciation for entertaining an old timer. We were made for each other and we will definitely have a life full of surprises and wonders.
And he came too 
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