Today we went with our daughter, partner and her son to see the section of Restored Railway at Elsecar in South Yorkshire, where they run Santa Trains for the little children. The Railway is run by volunteers, and their children, who act as Santas little helpers.
It is only a short section of track, and the train chugs backwards and forwards, until Santa has spoken to every child and they have received a present. Today, it took over an hour and a half!
To help ease the strain on the train, for the adults, we are given mince pies and Baileys'.
The children get so excited, it is lovely to see their faces. Each and every child reacts in a different way to the experience. It may be the last trip we do on this train, our grandson who is four and a half, was looking a bit closely at Santa, so maybe next year we will have to find a different event to take him to. He is a clever child with "all his buttons sewn on." He can figure things out in his head, he seems to know insinctively how things work, or how they are done.
The experience for us is lovely, by going on the train, we are helping with the fund raising and giving support for the efforts of the restorers and rebuilders effort, helping to keep a little Railway community going.
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