Thursday 29 January 2026 - A Trip to York

A day in York to celebrate Sue's University friend Anne's 60th birthday. This involved ten contemporaries plus me meeting at a Costa coffee shop at the station before 11am. From there we spent the rest of the morning in the railway museum before adjourning to the Blue Barbakan restaurant.

Here we are in Anne's photo at the coffee shop.

There's a magnificent giant fireguard at the entrance of the museum.

I will not attempt to annotate many of the pictures taken in the museum. Where I took photos of the information boards they mostly appear after the picture(s) of the subject matter.

Click on an image for a slideshow. Enjoy...

Evening Star, which I saw when it was in service, is being 'remediated'

This engine - 'Prince William' was designated to pull the royalty's coaches

We didn't get as far as the yard where an engine was in steam. Next time, perhaps.

There's a magnificent exhibition of beautiful scale models in a separate hall.

Eventually we dragged ourselves away, and over the bridge to the city centre and an excellent long lunch at The Blue Barbakan.

It has been raining here, but not today.

An excellent menu - I chose the 'Hungarian potato pancake' version of their beef stew.

 

A bit of shopping, then it soon became dusk - and time to get our train home.

What a lovely day out. And here's a picture from some earlier celebrations. I can't think of a caption that wouldn't be rude!