"Tornado" Steam Loco Talk - Shropshire / Dec '09

[Mine Explorer]

Originally Posted by Steam Scenes

At the RLS AGM last weekend we were lucky enough to see Tornado at Kidderminster station - they arranged a break in the meeting especially to see it arrive!

Blimey, talk about a lowering of standards: The Road Locomotive Society holding their AGM at a steam railway - I'm suprised half the membership didn't boycott it in protest!
Whatever next? ...a lowering of their high membership eligibility requirements?!



More seriously, bearing in mind all the hype and fuss surrounding the thing, and the fact it's been running just 20 miles down the road for the last 2 weeks, I haven't seen it yet! Tch, perhaps I'm becoming too assimilated into road steam?!
Seems tomorrow it's leaving 'The Valley to work a mainline charter from Gloucester to London.
Oh well, too late now!

[MARK RIGG]

Well, being lucky enough to live in Bridgnorth , I have had the pleasure of seeing ( and hearing ) Tornado all week .

What an absolutely stupendous bit of kit - almost in the same league as a Burrell !!.

And , what with the enlightenment of the RLS at last acknowledging that the are other forms of life on the planet , things are really looking good on the UK s premier heritage railway.

MARK .

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