Missing the points

I was trying to find a photo of a train on the tracks on which we raced on the Heritage Trail the other night. If you reached  where this one was taken, at St Johns Station, you would not have gone off the track but you would have missed the points.

It does demonstrate that gimmicks are not new on the Steam Railway - this one was taken in 1974. I wonder how much extra champagne was sold after this venture?

I wonder how many extra people will travel on the railways next month after a 2 page (yes two whole pages) of adverts was taken by the Department of Community, Culture and Leisure in the Isle of Man Courier to advertise this: http://www.iombusandrail.info/events/island-at-war.html

The "classic period" that is so joyfully described in the advert was a period in which between 50 and 70 million people were killed.  Last week's Isle of Man Examiner recalled how three of the Steam Packets ships were destroyed in a 24 hour period. Maybe I am missing the points.