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Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer
This is Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle steamer. She's currently on a two week foray up and down the Thames Estuary and adjacent coasts.
A twin-funnelled pleasure steamer, she spent over 20 years ferrying passengers up and down Loch Long as part of the British Railways Caledonian Steam Packet Co Clyde coast fleet. By Broadness the red lights at the top of the UK's tallest pylons were illuminated, one either side of the river, and by the time we turned towards the QE2 bridge only a small patch of sky still glowed orange. Once through you might see a plane landing alongside at City Airport, and then it all starts looking like Fritz Lang's Metropolis with the cabins of the Dangleway pulsing purple in front of the glowing towers of Canary Wharf.
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