Blenheim Park Railway Blenheim Park Railway Blenheim Park Railway is a gauge miniature railway operating in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. The railway opened in 1975 as a tourist attraction within 'The Pleasure Gardens', an area of visitor facilities inside the grounds of the Palace, but some distance from the house itself. Miniature railway operating company 'Pleasurerail' operated the service on a short out-and-back line. There were no passing loops or run-round loops, so the line was push-pull operated. The original locomotive was named "Sir Winston Churchill" (not to be confused with the current locomotive of the same name), and
After Blenheim he contradicts her, no, he says, it was a great victory. The poem is a scathing commentary on "man's cruelty to man". While Southey's verse, "After Blenheim", is considered by some an anti-war poem, arguably Southey was not himself anti-war: Byron himself considered Southey a puzzle: on the one hand, he denigrated the English victory at Blenheim, but praised the Battle of Waterloo in "The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo", a popular poem that generated £215 in two months of publication. It is one of Southey's most famous poems. The internal repetition of "but 'twas a famous victory" juxtaposed with the