Little children and their Big Trains

Standing before the Great Hall of Steam Engines, a little boy pays homage to power of steam, the achievements of men in their glistening condition.

Every older boy and man knows this boy will return time and time again throughout his life to visit and ride on the trains as being captivated at an early age, be forms a bond with sight, sounds and smells of steam trains.

It was what happened to a four year old me.

Trains were a big thing in boyhood with me and this is practically boy folk law, a replica of Stephenson's Rocket locomotive photographed in The Great Hall of the National Railway Museum, York in 2014.