I was almost on TV today

Visited some former colleagues at SX3 in Alderley Edge. I had to pick up a parcel containing six Roco Swiss BLS EWivs which had been mistakenly delivered to my former workplace, as good an excuse as any to have a beer at lunchtime with some of the people I used to work with.

On the way home I decided to take a detour, and ride the famous train from Stockport to Stalybridge. This is one of the (in)famous so-called 'parlimentary trains', a ghost train run as a token service on a line to avoid having to get a parlimentary act to close it. This one runs one a week, on a Friday afternoon, in one direction only.

Today must have been a slow news day; Granada TV decided feature it on their evening local news programme, and they had a camera team on board. After filming the interior of the train as it set off (and carefully not using any pictures with me in it!), they got off at the forlorn and weed-strewn station at Denton.