{"id":3229,"date":"2016-08-08T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2016-08-08T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T08:04:22","slug":"en-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3229","title":{"rendered":"En Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lovely Saturday &#8211; caught up with old chum over brunch and then went to see the frankly divine Karine Polwart in her Edinburgh Festival debut, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eif.co.uk\/2016\/windresistance#.V6gu9aJAmPU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wind Resistance<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 I would say go go go but it&#8217;s selt oot\u00a0 &#8211; we hied off to the Borders from Edinburgh\u00a0 on the new (to us) railway, by means of steam power, pulled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotrail.co.uk\/scotland-by-rail\/steam-train-trips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Scot<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a grand day, blustery but fair.\u00a0 There was much waving of the hands to those who had taken up various vantage points along the way, in pursuit of a good photo. \u00a0 Our early train from Fife to Waverley paused on the Forth Bridge, which allowed me to take slightly less wobbly than usual shots of the Queensferry Crossing, nearly complete as may hopefully be seen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3231\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3231\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3231\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8070014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Queensferry crossing and Forth Road Bridge from north end of Forth Bridge \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queensferry crossing and Forth Road Bridge from north end of Forth Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3232\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3232\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3232\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8070017-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Queensferry crossing and Forth Road Bridge, south ends, from Forth Bridge \" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queensferry crossing and Forth Road Bridge, south ends, from Forth Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3233\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3233\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3233\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8070026-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"First Class (not us)\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Class (not us)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3237\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3237\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3237\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8070073-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A visitor from Fife\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A visitor from Fife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3236\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3236\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3236\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8070065-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Big wheels\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big wheels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3235\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3235\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3235\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/P8070064-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"46100\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" 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