Yorkshire, England - York - National Railway Museum

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Back in York at the UK Rail Station, we left our luggage in the rental car, with permission, and made a quick visit to the National Railway Museum, a short walk away.  

	how a steam engine works
				90 mph >
	the Mallard could go 126 mph !					time to catch a train to the  Manchester Airport

There are more classic trains shown on the Epilogue page (link below), as well as a reference to Sir Nigel Gresley, a brilliant Mechanical Engineer, who designed the Blue Mallard, the fastest train ever built & an amazing achievement at the time.     

After a 90 minute train ride from York, passing through Leeds, we arrived back at the Manchester Airport.  It was somewhat amazing to go from train level (with diesel odors) up a few big elevators into the elegant Radisson Blue hotel, which had great interior design and soothing coloration, as well as quiet rooms. The walls at the entrance, dining room, and bar were covered with artistic references to the great age of British Rock music.     

After a nap we had a pleasant 6 pm candlelit dinner, four stories up, looking at Manchester Airport, as it closed down for the night. The setting was romantic & the food and service were superb. 

We slept in the following morning, since our return flight to DC didn't leave until noon. We had to walk through an extensive duty-free extravaganza, with live models, which was gross, and then we stood at a bus terminal, with terrible diesel fumes, but finally a bus took us out to board the plane, in the rain.

The final insult at Manchester airport was a main runway in awful condition, our fully loaded plane getting bounced around by potholes while trying to get up to lift-off speed !  

It was much smoother once aloft and remained so all the way to Washington D.C. After about an hour we saw mountainous & snow-covered Greenland off to our right. Greenland ! ....does not look habitable. 

After 15 nights out, we were home late in the day. Our thanks to Barb for house-sitting. 

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