Sarah really wanted to catch the Great Central steam trains, so we went in honour of her birthday. As we found out from the manufacturers' stamps and the drivers, both the train and the carriages are made in the 20th century. They may have deliberately left the carriage in a poorer conditions to exaggerate their ages.
The technology is a little older. These pictures looks more like black and white than colour pictures.
There is more coal chunks than ballasts. And the tracks are a little worn, unlikely due to age, probably due to softer newer steel track being use on the older harder wheels.
It was acceptable in the 40s, but why it is acceptable to show cigarette and tobaccos advertisement in location popular with young children in the name of vintage?
If this inefficient, filthy, carbon dioxide releasing jolly is acceptable in the name of education and vintage, then why don't we just keep a couple coal fired generators going in the name of education and vintage, at least they have some useful outputs.
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