A couple have recreated a 65-year-old wedding photo waving at a passing train - which the bride did every day as a girl.
George and Margaret Stone celebrated their anniversary on Thursday, September 5 - and marked it with a tradition going back decades.
Margaret and her sister Janet spent their childhood waving at trains passing their garden - with the drivers often tooting back.
She spent hours waving at the London to Penzance steam trains which used to thunder past her home in Wiltshire.
So much so that on September 5, 1959, bride-to-be Margaret and Janet made a cake shared by 300 colleagues of the Western Region of British Railways.
Margaret and George met at Trowbridge Young Farmers Club and even broke off from their wedding to wave at the train from the family farm in Easterton near Devizes.
Now they have recreated a photo taken on their wedding day, 65 years ago.
They were also presented with a special wedding cake from Great Western Railway - to return the kind-hearted gesture Margaret made back on the eve of her wedding day.
Their eldest daughter Annette said: “'It was just one of those lovely things my mum did.
''Her and her sister would run to the bottom of the garden, wave and the moving trains and they always tooted back.
"Mum's grandfather was station master at Saltash train station and his brother was station master at Perranwell
"She spent her childhood waving at the trains and it’s charming to see how she developed such a bond with the drivers and firemen.
“65 years of marriage is something truly special to celebrate and today’s presentation really has been the icing on the cake for mum and dad.”
GWR Head of External Communications Dan Panes said: “It’s like something out of The Railway Children.
"Margaret was obviously a real train fanatic as a young girl and built up quite a rapport with the drivers, who would sound the train whistles as they rolled by.
"The fact she baked a wedding cake for railway colleagues was a wonderful gesture, so we were determined to mark their 65th wedding anniversary by returning the favour.”
The couple moved to Cornwall after they married and now live in Carbis Bay.
They have six children - Annette, Nicola, Richard, Robert, Sarah and Rachel - and 18 grandchildren, with a great-grandchild due to arrive next year.
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