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12 minutes of Gauge 1 bliss - Tornado and P2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XEJnjIa0TI&t=322s

Accucraft’s recently introduced 61063 A1 ‘Tornado’ in experimental BR blue, and a one-off scratch-built LNER P2 'Cock-‘o-the-North’ mikado. As many here know, the full-size ‘Tornado’ was built using volunteer money by the A1 Trust, who are now well on the way to completing a full-size replication of the P2…

…only in UK.

Meanwhile, here is a 5" gauge coal-fired version the the other LNER P2 - ‘Wolf of Badenoch’ getting a fine run…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjVFvpiFY&t=322s#t=151.169999

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A streamlined Mikado is not a locomotive I would have expected.

Do like LNER’s green, makes for a pretty engine.

Try this for size, then - the only streamlined Hudson ever built in UK - 450psi marine - Yarrow-type - boiler - LOADS on innovation all in one highly susceptible to leaking loco that cost a fortune to build and to run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYimriec57o

In GREY.

The LNER had two of them most beautiful colours ever to be put on a locomotive - apple green and garter blue.

However - if you want wacky, look up Olive Bulleid’s ‘Leader’ - it looked just like a diesel, but had two steam-driven trucks, and was coal-fired.

His ideas were interesting, to say the least. As the CME of the Coras Iómpair Éireann - the Irish state railways - he designed a locomotive that ran on Ireland’s main source of fuel - 10,000 year-old compressed grass from a swamp - turf.

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I note they are running Tornado on the S&C in scheduled service. What’s with the diesel to run back to Skipton?

My understanding is that the diesel is used to provide additional braking on the lumpy bits, rather after the fashion in live-steam excursions in pre-Hunter days in Western Canada when we used to see #2860 and #2816 running their trains eastwards.

However, I could be wrong.

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