Sunday 3rd August 2003
Coventry to Starcross via Birmingham and Stratford. We went on a steam train with sunday lunch from Birmigham to Stratford on Avon and back, then to Dawlish where we walked along the sea wall to our hotel in Starcross.
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Monday 4th August 2003
Dawlish to Shrewsbury with most of the day spent in Newport to have a walk round the town and along the river to visit the transporter bridge.
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Tuesday 5th August 2003
We went to Tywyn and had a lovely ride on the Tallylyn railway then carried on to Llanaber where we stayed in an old farmhouse.
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Wednesday 6th August 2003
We carried on up the welsh coast, stopping for a ride on the Welsh Highland Railway, then the Ffestiniog railway to Blaenau Ffestiniog, then to Llandudno on a modern train with a quick stop at the Conwy railway museum.
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Thursday 7th August 2003
We left Wales and went to Crewe to visit The Railway Age museum and then on to Leeds for the night.
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Friday 8th August 2003
We took the Settle-Carlisle line through some impressive scenery to Carlisle then went across to Edinburgh where we had a tour of the city, then a nose at the festival, before taking the sleeper train to London.
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Saturday 9th August 2003
We had breakfast in London, floowed by a tour of St Pancras Chambers (formerly the Midland Grand Hotel) then spent the afternoon watching Mamma Mia, before catching the train home to collapse exhaused and happy.
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