Our new columnist VICKI PIPE travels on a Bucket & Spade special to the Sunshine Coast
Over the summer the team at Community Rail Network, via their sister site Scenic Rail Britain, launched the #DaysOutByRail campaign to help inspire people to safely return to the railways, and explore everything the UK network has to offer.
Following along, my social media timeline was filled with ideas for new journeys. Weekly themes helped to guide explorations, with my personal favourite ‘doorstep discoveries’, highlighting how you don’t necessarily have to travel far or spend lots of money to enjoy your own railway adventure. Did you know, for example, that the world’s only eight-sailed windmill stands just a stone’s throw from Heckington station in Lincolnshire? No, me neither (quickly adds to future adventure list).
BUCKET & SPADE
It was in this spirit that I found myself on the Essex coast during late August, where I heard a phrase not often uttered on the platform of a railway station:
‘That’s the best train I’ve ever been on!’ Although, if like me, you were lucky enough to be a passenger on board one of the Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership’s Bucket & Spade trains, you will per…
