Tornado, the A1 Class express loco that made history ten years ago when it became the first mainline steam locomotive to be newly built for around half a century, has just emerged from the 'works' after its ten-year major overhaul. Yesterday it transferred from Locomotion, the railway museum at Shildon to Edinburgh to work a series of tourist charter trains in The Highlands. The transfer was used as a test run for the newly overhauled engine, towing just one support coach.
Here its charging through Durham station doing around 70mph.
It was mild but the light was poor and I was working at 1000 ISO on my K3 with the DA*50-135mm lens and the fastest shutter speed I could get was 1/200 sec, a bit slow for this sort of action. but this frame was reasonably sharp others not so successful.
Thanks to Tommy T for reminding me this transfer was taking place.
David
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