RAF Cosford and the Severn Valley Railway

Today we visited RAF Cosford, a RAF Museum.  There is a display of 70 historic aircraft in 3 wartime hangers.  There’s a cold war exhibition and the 3 British V bombers, Vulcan, Victor and Valiant.  There is also a Dornier 17 that has been rescued after more than 70 years at the bottom of the sea.  There are only fragile bits of it left and it is in hydration tunnels being treated to preserve what is left. 

 

 

 

From there we drove to Bridgnorth to ride the steam train, the Severn Valley railway which winds its way to Kidderminster.  It takes nearly 2 hours to do that and is very scenic.   There is 16 miles of track that winds its way between Bridgnorth, Hampton Loade, Highley, Arley, Bewdley and Kidderminster.  think that is just about the longest steam train ride I have been on.  It is mostly pulled by full sized steam engines and you travel in historic carriages dating from 1912 through to the 1960’s.  We were lucky today and both our journeys were by steam train.