Steam train's snow rescue 'glory' (BBC News)
 

Train passengers left stranded after the snowy weather disrupts rail services are rescued by steam locomotive.

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Brilliant !:D:D

A good Christmas story which I hope gets well publicised.

Well there you go then STEAM FOR EVER !!!!

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you know it makes sense

What a great story
I bet SFE is jumping with joy.

ccmmick.

"Simplicity is the acme of design." However, I'm not suggesting that 60163 is a "simple" locomotive! The technology is just rather more robust I guess. So, perhaps a steam locomotive production line is not so crazy after all.

In the current (rather exceptional) circumstances, steam probably does work better than any other form of traction. Sadly it won't snow 365 days a year.

Not to take away from the moment which is really lovely and great publicity for Tornado and steam in general!

Great piece of action which should bring in more money to help pay for this great locomotive!

Best wishes for Christmas.

John H-T.

Bah! Humbug.........the Tornado hauled train couldn't have been very popular if they were able to offer the seats to 100 stranded passengers.:D

It is a shame that nothing was said on the 6o'clock news today.

ccmmick.

I bet they more than covered their costs but with that kind of power I expect a few more coaches wouldnt be a strain anyway!

Yes I wonder why nothing on the tv

What a shame a good story wasn't covered by the T.V. It shows that there is always room for the older technology in this Hi-tech world . This was a great opportunity missed.

It seems a lot of the steam tours are suffering with no bums on seats and the Tornado trips are a little more expensive.I do a lot of these trips and this time of year have children and grandchildren to get gifts for so have to cut the cloth so to speak but next year I will be a bum on a seat along with my buddies bums.All the best John

Steam Train Rescue
 

Just to let you know it was me that broke this story to Radio Kent. I was on the train with my little boy as a treat for him (me!)
I was interviewed on the John Warnet show yesterday morning at about 9.12 am uk time. The show can probably be accessed on bbc iplayer or the radio kent website:)

Well done "flatfish" for breaking the story, hope the little chap (and you)enjoyed it:).

With regards to not being mentioned on the main BBC news, I suppose it was not actually important enough for them, no politicians involved !
Dont know about Sky though.

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How about keeping a couple of Black 5's stationed in the frozen south for when the modern technical marvels go whatsits up the next time we get another flake of snow

Messrs Bunker and Allatt were interviewed at some length on Radio 5 in the earlier hours of the morning a few hours ago. They mentioned this little triumph

My dad told me about the steam train rescue that evening and I thought he said that he had seen it on the TV? He lives in Norfolk so he wont be listening to Radio from Kent. He also thought it was something to do with rescuing the Eurostar trains as he didnt hear the full story, clearly not a St.Pancras train as I dont think they like steam on that line!!

Not meaning to brag or anything, but that is my photo on the BBC news report :)

Hope they paid you for the use of it Craig.

Regards, 62440.

And why not its a great picture.

ccmmick.

Nice one Craig - I notice that Tornado was dragging 13 carriages, so no wonder they had 100 spare seats to give away. Also the Thumper sounds great. The snow adds so much atmosphere to all the recent pix and vids. Cheers.