lovely faded lettering on side of engine Aln Valley Railway.. I'm not a railway buff in any sense of the word but my brother in law who was staying for the weekend is really badly into steam trains and engineering and he had found this little volunteer railway set up on an industrial estate near Alnwick. He wanted to pop by just to have a look and so we traipsed off expecting to be much less interested than we were!!! The trains were kinda nice and almost interesting but the fixture and fittings, designs gloriously rusty bits - more gleaming wheels and tracks and the like were fascinating, very photogenic and full of design potential. Having my new camera I took loads of photos of obscure bits of train, track and engine bits, all further complemented with images of rusty corroding metal bits, faded painted signs, and moss covered sidings. Very beautiful in a kind of urban engineering landscape way... texture and patina of slowly corroding metal There wer...