As a welcome change from all the gloom and navel-gazing that occurs on this blog, here's a happy post.
Astute readers may already know about the A1 Peppercorn Class 60163 "Tornado", the first main line steam locomotive built in this country since 1960 - not a preserved original (no examples of the A1 Peppercorn class exist, all having been scrapped in the late 60s) but a brand-new locomotive, built from scratch, from the original drawings, but to the standards required by a modern railway.
Today was her first trip to London, pulling the A1 Trust's "Talisman" rail tour train into Kings Cross, and, thanks to a reminder from a friend, I was there. I'm not, by nature, much of a trainspotter, but I do have a very soft spot for steam locos, and the Tornado is such a remarkable achievement, that I found myself quite moved by the huge crowds that had turned out to greet her.
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Re: Chuffchuff
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Saltation
on Mon 09 Feb 2009 23:23 GMT | Permanent Link
and they're green and they're lovely and they reek OBVIOUSLY and HAPPILY of the positive aspects of Man's engineering.
Re: Re: Chuffchuff
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BaldJohn
on Tue 10 Feb 2009 09:22 GMT | Profile | Permanent Link
Absolutely. The small boy in my head wants to go and get his old train set out of storage and play with it for hours on the living room carpet...
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