There is something about steam contraptions isn't there? But I've seen few.

I believe I did get to touch the Flying Scotsman when it came into Shrewsbury for something when I was very young - can have been no later than 1966 and me b 1960 but memory is foggy and see Will's comments re Royal Scot engine and the class.

Childood memory really is a different engine and class again, Oliver Cromwell at Bressingham.

I (in 17 years of living in the area) keep meaning to go on the light Bure Valley line and of course when I lived in Wales, there was the Ffestiniog Railway for one... Maybe one day I'll get round to one of these scenic journeys, hopefully hauled by steam.