Let's not get too depressed folks, don't worry, be happy. Life is change, etc etc.
I remember the last steam train on BR disappearing down the line at Ais Gill in August 1968, and everybody was saying "Bloody hell, what do we do now?" Fast forward to 2008 - a bunch of upstanding folks have just completed a brand new big Pacific main line steam loco,
Tornado. ( Shameless plug
http://www.a1steam.com/ )
Similarly, at Cropredy's "Farewell, Farewell" in 1979 everybody was looking round and going "B*gger, now what?" Well we know, don't we? Seriously, there's something rather culturally important about Croppers, let's hope it carries on somehow. I'll be there with me long white beard and incontinence pants (that'll be 2009 then
).