Tornado causing a stir on return home

Sloan · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2010 9:27 am

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8 ... turn_home/

GSpro · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2010 11:12 pm

Interesting story.. over 5k visitors in just one day?! That's pretty impressive!

bigjim4life · **Posted:** Fri May 07, 2010 7:15 am

Now, when I saw this link, I thought it was something about an actual tornado, most likely in the Midwest, regarding a train trip home (maybe chasing 844?) - but then I saw the link, and realized it was "Tornado" in Britain...*sigh* - oh well. Nice ambiguous title though. :)

sleepermonster · **Joined:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:57 pm **Posts:** 100

You may be interested in a news item just surfaced in the railway press over here. The A1 Locomotive Trust are now seriously looking at a second project to keep their team together until Tornado needs an overhaul. The new project is a replica of the Gresley P2 2-8-2 2001 "Cock O' The North". The second locomotive is in the same design family with many common parts. This has been kicked over unofficially for a while, now it seems likely they mean business.

2001 would be something quite different to anything on rails in the UK right now.

Tim

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

sleepermonster wrote:

You may be interested in a news item just surfaced in the railway press over here. The A1 Locomotive Trust are now seriously looking at a second project to keep their team together until Tornado needs an overhaul. The new project is a replica of the Gresley P2 2-8-2 2001 "Cock O' The North". The second locomotive is in the same design family with many common parts. This has been kicked over unofficially for a while, now it seems likely they mean business.

2001 would be something quite different to anything on rails in the UK right now.

Tim

Tim -

Got a photo of the "Cock O' The North"?

Les

sleepermonster · **Joined:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:57 pm **Posts:** 100

Not immediately to hand, but try

www.lner.info/locos/P/p2.shtml

Tim