North Pole Express Day 4

Today is 4 of 10 with expresses from East Tanfield to the North Pole taking children (and bigger people) to see Santa in his grotto.   All trains are fully booked up to Christmas Eve, with about 400 children per day seeing Santa.

All photos on this page by Neville Whaler.

Richard, Tom and James on No.6 wait .....

..... to take over the North Pole Express from Twizell

The bishop and Twizell wait for .....

..... No.6 to arrive back at the North Pole ....

..... where everyone gets off for the grotto .....

..... except for Dave the trainee guard, moving the tail lamp

Later, the photographer of the day outside his box
(all photos courtesy of Neville)