Keith speaking. I tried to resist this but, in the end I could not. Although we are in Spain we closely followed the unfolding events in the south east caused by the bad weather and the ensuing travel chaos. When talking about the tunnel and euro star in particular my comment was, “send down a steam loco, that will sort it out”.
Low and behold the big green machine, Tornado did the business. Two untroubled round trips from London to the Kent coast. It even gave a lift home to some commuters who were stuck in London. I hope they dipped in to their pockets with a donation towards the outstanding £600,000 build cost of Tornado. It would have been nice if the media had given it more cover, forgot, they only do negative.
That weekend, up and down the country preserved railways ran as scheduled. You do not have to be interested in steam railways to appreciate the pictures, the scenery is magic. Go on youtube and have a look at the videos, in particular the North Yorks moor railway, note the little boy on the station and the big boys playing with their toys.
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