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My attention has just been drawn to this quite remarkable monorail system in Wuppertal in Western Germany. Apparently it is one of the main attractions of the city, I'm not surprised as it looks super-awesome, and is definitely going to earn a place on my 'list of things to do before I die'.
Last Summer I went on holiday with my parents and my sister. I was due to leave on the 8th August which was a Saturday, however this happened to clash with the first game of the new football season. It just so happened that my team Hereford United were to play away at Leyton Orient, just down the road from where I was living at the time in Walthamstow. Arrangements were hastily made and I instead booked a train to joininng my family on the in Pembroke on the Sunday, allowing me to watch the match beforehand.
This however, meant an epic 8 hour journey from London and 5 different trains. I made an early start leaving Walthamstow on a train for Liverpool Street, where I changed and took the Circle line underground to London Paddington. From there I took the train all the way to Swansea, passing the impressive Liberty Stadium on the way, on the approach into Swansea.
At Swansea I had a to change trains which gave me 40 minutes at the station. I considered having a wander towards town as I hadn't been to Swansea for a couple of years, but shortly after arriving a torrential downpour put pay to that idea. Typical Welsh weather. Instead I hung around the station and took a couple of shots. You may, or may not recognise the front of the station from the 1997 Welsh film Twin Town.
The next leg of my journey took me further West into Wales, luckily the weather picked up and I made the most of the beautiful scenery. I only seem to have the one picture, but you get the idea...
About an hour after leaving Swansea I arrived at Carmarthen station where I had to make my final change which involved nipping over the tracks onto the opposite platform.
Half an hour later I finally arrived into Haverfordwest at around 5pm.
All in all the journey took around 8 hours and I despite the fact that it took up most of the day, could not think of a much better way to spend a Sunday than riding the rails through the Welsh countryside.
On Saturday I was stood on on a platform at London Paddington train station and, whilst waiting for my train, I took a couple of photos...
I travel quite a bit by train which I, generally, really enjoy. I also quite often (OK, very often) find myself taking photos of trains, stations or anything else that looks interesting on my way. When taking these photos at Paddington on Saturday I realised that I never really do anything with these photos, and thus I came up with the idea for trainosaurus.
On this blog I plan to post pictures and stories of my train travels, and will also re-count stories past, including my 3 months spent travelling around the USA by Amtrak. It will no doubt be incredibly interesting to anybody who may happen to read it. Oh yes.
