{"id":195,"date":"2026-01-02T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/?p=195"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:46:45","slug":"chasewater-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.notejuste.com\/not\/railways\/chasewater-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasewater Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The new year dawns on fresh creativity. I have joined up to support my local preservation railway. Chasewater is a lovely line – a couple of miles of standard gauge colliery railway that runs regular services at weekends and midweek. There’s two brilliant little tea rooms, a G-scale layout and a shop, and some wonderful bits and pieces of railway history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the shed at Brownhills West there’s also a museum comprehensively maintained and catalogued by devoted volunteers. They have memorabilia from local and national rail of all ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My plan for 2026 is to create some art from this. I’d love to explore some of the themes of preservation – salvage and restoration. I want to play with words and music and possibly write some new songs. So I began with a simple poem drawn from ideas I’ve been toying with for a few months since the Santa Trains in November when I stood on the platform and played carols with some friends from Beacon Community Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here it is – my very first poem of 2026. With sincere hopes that your year is bright and prosperous, and that I can add to this soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locomotive Heart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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