Steam Railway

Today we went to Loughborough for a ride on the Steam train, Santa came through the carriages as well but that was incidental... Huge scope for learning, Reuben was fascinated by the steam, looked at pictures of how the engine worked, knows that you need a fire (for burning coal) and at the end wanted to see the engine itself, unfortunately the real fire was a bit scary! He also kept the whole carriage greatly entertained for an hour by making stuff out of paper and distributing it around as well as drawing on the glass and telling everyone about it. Isaac was wide eyed when we started to move (see video) and of course the whole ride was very enjoyable, and I really liked the 1940s feel to the train and station (our engine was older, 90 years old).