Yes, after my previous post I was pondering on what I should do next, I’d seen Tornado, albeit from a distance, and had my cuppa, and decided first to see if I could get a bus somewhere but decided against it and returned to the station and headed to NRM when I spot the entrances to the far platforms closed off by security… this intrigued me. then I saw the carriages of the Royal train and realised what had returned to York… Tornado
So, I rushed down to the opposite platform armed with camera and even donated £1 to the A1 locomotive trust
So I managed to get a couple of pictured of Tornado, of which I enclose :)
This first one is showing the full length of Tornado plus the carriage behind it, on the humour side there is a law in the UK saying it is against the law to smoke in enclosed public places, look what Tornado is doing, lol (Thanks to an unnamed national express East Coast staff member for that bit of humour)
Tornado and half of it’s tender, the blue nameplate is visible at the front
Tornado’s tender, with “British Railways” on the side, also shown is Tornado’s painted number “60163”
A close up of the side of the cab, displaying Tornado’s number, and it’s Axle Load class of RA 9, “RA 9” means the locomotive cannot be used on routes for anything less than that, as it is too heavy
One of Tornado’s name plates
The classic and the modern, Tornado and an electric powered British Rail Class 91 in service with national express East Coast
Though thinking about it, Tornado is actually the newer locomotive as it was built AFTER the entire fleet of class 91s, however Tornado’s original design, as it’s a Peppercorn A1 locomotive, dates back to the late 1940s, albeit it has had some modifications in design to accommodate modern railways
I did take a few more pictures but sadly they had a fair amount of people in them and that kind of ruined them, it was a busy place today
More soon
Happy Journeys :)
