Oh you bet!
I used to watch Warships (and Westerns) thundering past the bottom of my grandparents garden as a small boy. I could watch them for hours going full-tilt along a particularly flat and straight section of track a few miles out from Cogload Junction and Taunton. The noise of those Maybach diesels was awesome, even to my young ears
Hymeks I used to regularly see working trains on what is now the West Somerset railway working the weekend trains to and from Butlins back in BR days...
