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12 minutes of Gauge 1 bliss - Tornado and P2

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#1

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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#2

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

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

#3

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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#4

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

#5

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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