In England, the new steam engine, Tornado, has been steamed up and is operational!:mrgreen:
This is extremely exciting news! This is a completely new A1 Peppercorn Pacific loco and has been built from scratch. It's built as closely as possible to its 1948 specs. I've been tracking this project off and on, and it seems that it's almost done -- they still have to raise several thousand pounds to ensure that it's fit to run on the mainline. I think it's the first steam loco to be built in Britain in some 50 years.
At any rate, these two videos pretty much sum up this news. Again, as a steam buff and as British railways enthusiast, I'm very excited about this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7538348.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7537462.stm
Here's their website as well. I'm hoping to go to England in 2009 so maybe I'll get to see it? :mrgreen:
Enjoy!
Rob
This is extremely exciting news! This is a completely new A1 Peppercorn Pacific loco and has been built from scratch. It's built as closely as possible to its 1948 specs. I've been tracking this project off and on, and it seems that it's almost done -- they still have to raise several thousand pounds to ensure that it's fit to run on the mainline. I think it's the first steam loco to be built in Britain in some 50 years.
At any rate, these two videos pretty much sum up this news. Again, as a steam buff and as British railways enthusiast, I'm very excited about this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7538348.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7537462.stm
Here's their website as well. I'm hoping to go to England in 2009 so maybe I'll get to see it? :mrgreen:
Enjoy!
Rob