FULL steam ahead!

A train-loving couple are celebrating after becoming the first to be married at Bury Transport Museum.

Sweethearts Colin Langdon and Denise Hughes tied the knot at the museum due to a mutual love of everything to do with trains.

The happy couple, who are both widowed, had their guests arrive at the ceremony in a double-decker bus and then boarded a chartered steam train to take them to Rawtenstall and back.

Colin, who turned 60 on the day of the wedding, said: “Both of us like trains so we thought this would be something interesting and unusual to do on our wedding day.

“We had a look around a few stations and transport museums and when we enquired at Bury they said they had never done anything like this before but they would happily start now.”

The happy couple, who live in Leigh, are both retired and have been together for 18 months after meeting over the internet.

Colin, who ran a cycle training company, added: “We found each other on the internet and hit it off like a house on fire straight away.

“This has all been very spontaneous, ever since we met.”

The pair married on Tuesday, August 11, at the museum in Bolton Street, before holding their reception at the Bury station of the East Lancashire Railway.