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The tornado steam train

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The Tornado puffed out of York station on Tuesday night for Scarborough, it was the first time that a new steam locomotive had ridden Britains main lines since 1960 (so they say) but something tells me that that is wrong. BUT I AM NO EXPERT WHEN IT COMES TO THE RAILWAY. She will be based at the National Railway Museum in York until at least February it will undergo tests up to 75 mph before getting the go ahead to carry passengers on the rail network. It was built by the A1 steam locomotive trust...Cat
 
Catkin said:
The Tornado puffed out of York station on Tuesday night for Scarborough, it was the first time that a new steam locomotive had ridden Britains main lines since 1960 (so they say) but something tells me that that is wrong. BUT I AM NO EXPERT WHEN IT COMES TO THE RAILWAY. She will be based at the National Railway Museum in York until at least February it will undergo tests up to 75 mph before getting the go ahead to carry passengers on the rail network. It was built by the A1 steam locomotive trust...Cat
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Catkin,
I believe mainline steam finished c 1968 so I think they are right in claiming it is the first steam loco to be built and run on main lines since then.
 
Darby Thank you, I stand corrected i knew some-one would put me right...Cat
 
Catkin, I saw the article about the "Tornado" in the Birmingham Mail yesterday. I was thrilled to hear about it. Thanks for posting.
 
The project had good coverage on English Television too, BBC 4 TV is running a steam railway series at the moment, and I have seen a one hour programme twice already. It is an amazing story -- especially how modern methods of building are so much more accurate and efficient than ever before. But it is a sad thing that we can't make the vital bits in this country any more. We only invented them.
Peter
 
I have to be enthusiastic about this wonderfull revival of transport past. But it is a love relationship that is a quandry at the same time when I think about the low thermal efficiency of steam and the air pollution that also is a by-product of this mode. Never the less a stirling achievement at a time when we seem to be looseing skills to others yonder.
 
Thernal efficiency? The steam locomotive is the only heat engine which has insulation to keep the heat within its cylinders and combustion area. Try draining all the water out of your car engine and lagging it with felt and see how efficient it is!

Please do not call Tornado a train, it is a locomotive!

The last steam locomotive built for BR was completed in March 1960 and was named EVENING STAR.

more details here

https://www.nrm.org.uk/collections/loco/eveningstar.asp
 
Sorry Pete I thought everyone on here was intelligent enough not to need that explained!
 
Not many people realise, why would they, that there is a steam hauled train running
almost every day on the current rail network somewhere or other.
 
Not many people realise that most of their electricity is produced by steam turbines run on COAL.
 
I did call it a locomotive as well as a train, but, I am a female....... so that is my excuse...Cat
 
OK folks, calm down, some of you are getting all steamed up about the subject.
 
well said postie.:D
a train: something dragged behind: something that is pulled or dragged along or that follows something else
 
lets stick to being one happy lot of peeps hey.
i am going off the rails a bit here this is a steam train post sorry.:headhit:
 
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