15 Guinea Special Redux!

Hi everybody, long time no post: anyways, in the time gone past three magic things have happened in the UK steam scene:

1. Tornado is at last hauling trains on the Great Central Railway, continuing its tests! The magical sight-and sound- of the lost A1s has finally been reborn.

2. The line up of FOUR A4s at a recent National Railway Museum event- three of them in steam! (although the entry price of just under 33 POUNDS left many rail fans annoyed..

3. And finally, the 40th anniversary of one of the saddest days of them all: the end of Steam in Great Britain, with the re-running of the legendary '15 guinea Special' with the classic 'Britannia' Pacific 'Oliver Cromwell' and three ex-LMS 'Black-Fives'.

Youtube has clips of all three: here are the links:

A4 Line up

Tornado in Operation (with whistle!

15 Guinea Special!

Enjoy the links everyone. For my next article- which hopefully should be a bit sooner- I'll be releasing a break-down of two of the LNWR's Chief Mechanical Engineers- the much maligned (very unfairly so) compound man, Francis W. Webb, and his un-maligned successor, George Whale.