2 year old obsessed with Trains... where to go?

[12CSVT]

Another suggestion, if you (and your son) want to see both freight and passenger trains is Acton Main Line station. The station itself is a good vantage point for Acton yard which is used by numerous aggregates trains.

 

[43021HST]

Agreed that Reading would be a really good idea.

On the EMU topic, I really like the 350s' whirr as they leave/stop at a station!

As a kid you ignore the silly whirr, you're attention is drawn to the big growling diesel sitting at the head of an express train.

 

[EXD]

You don't want to put the kid off trains!

I think how I was bitten buy the railway bug was the screaming Valenta engines at Reading, that made such a big impression for such a small boy. I also had healthy doses of First gen Diesels and steam at preserved, that's probably why I'm not a unit fan, I was brought up with much better at such a young age!

If I'd lived in an area that was strictly EMUs I don't think I'd have the fascination for railways like I do.

I wouldn't write Clapham Junction off so easily - I was entranced by the place at a similar age. Admittedly there were slammers then, but I liked the other stuff too.

 

[YorkshireBear]

If hes 2 then i dont think he cares about the type of train, just got somewhere with high frequency and big trains and he will be thrilled just like i was at such a young age. Didcot is good though, i would recommend that.

 

[Requeststop]

My 21 month old daughter has a fascination for hst and voyagers, you can see a viaduct from our window, and she gets excited everytime a hst or voyager passes, but isn't interested in.150s and 153s,

One of the under - estimated viaducts in Cornwall if not the nation - wonderful Xmas lights too (12 days of Xmas a couple of days back) and a couple of excellent pubs for lunch and an evening meal. Hayle the nearest Station. - Bit of a journey back towards Camborne to get there.

Angarrack also the name of a very good novel recently dramatised on Radio 4 too. Passed over the viaduct many, many times.

Getting back to the topic in hand - How about Ashford? Plenty of action there with Channel Tunnel and local traffic!
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I was thinking Clapham but I would avoid rush hour.

Get a travelcard and Londons network is your (or not) oyster as they say , with that you could do both and a trip on Thames link to St Pancreas and the redone Kings Cross.

Sorry I couldn't resist - I can imagine a 2 year olds Pancreas having trouble with an Oyster, as well as a 2 year old having trouble swiping an Oyster card at St Pancras.

 

[richw]

One of the under - estimated viaducts in Cornwall if not the nation - wonderful Xmas lights too (12 days of Xmas a couple of days back) and a couple of excellent pubs for lunch and an evening meal. Hayle the nearest Station. - Bit of a journey back towards Camborne to get there.

i live directly opposite the pub, nice quiet village except at christmas time for above reasons!

 

[TorqueOfTheDevil]

Adding to the North Wales idea, you could do a day circuit from Bangor with admittedly a bus to Caernarfon, but then a Garratt on the WHR to Porthmadog, a Fairlie on the Ffestiniog, a DMU from Blaenau to Llandudno Junction and then a 67 hauling the WAG express to Bangor (all of which is in daylight now that the clocks have gone forward). Plenty of tunnels and semaphore signals which are a favourite with my 2yo son (though we haven't yet done the full circuit as described)!