Thomas goes rumpety rumpety all down the road

Thomas has traveled successfully from Sheffield to Exeter by train, and can now visit a park we used to go to when we visited more regularly at the start of the 21st century.  (The park is called Bury Meadow, supposedly because it's on top of a mass grave, dating back, I believe, to the Black Death.  Talk about making lemonade out of lemons...)

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2016:

It's just not the same when his father tries it (2014):