It was a surprise when my
wife suggested taking a six hour trip to Norwich aboard a charter train, the
vintage diesel hauled ‘Fenland Norfolkman’, provided of course that we went ‘Premier
Dining’ which meant first class and fine dining, but I readily concurred and so
we got ourselves to Darlington station for the 07:18 departure and were soon
tucking into our full English breakfast as the sunlit countryside passed by in
yellows and green under skies of blue and white, through Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire and over the pan-flat fenlands of Norfolk to Norwich; on the
return journey the dining was not only fine but extensive, leaving us slumped
in our roomy seats in the old but elegant intercity carriages, a little warm
for a while as the vintage air conditioning did not so much fail as go into
reverse, but comfortable again well before we pulled back into Darlington, on
time, at 22:45.
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