60163 Tornado, Kinchley Lane, 10.09.08
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Firstly, I must apologize, for some reason, I did not comment on your excellent video.(I thougt I had but must have lost the text!!)
Secondly, yes your right it is only paint perhaps, the locomotive will wear the Britsh Railways Livery some time soon.
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Silly me! It's got a BR number so of course it will be finished in BR green livery! DOH!
It's going to look magnificent when finished! When is it planned to haul it's first main line tour?
Am I right in thinking it is the only A1 4-6-2 working?
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Tornado leaves the G.C after the main gala, it will move to Derby for weighing and then move to the NRM for painting into Apple green with lettered BRITISH RAILWAYS on the tender where it will be displayed on the turntable over christmas. Unless things change.
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Is 60163 'Tornado' to be finished in LNER livery? Will it stay on the GCR or will it move on? I know it's to be mainline certified when fully operational.
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awesome to see tornado
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Tractor255 is correct that the Tornado could not run round at Leicester - the 45 was NOT put on in case Tornado failed!
Incidentally on this run the locomotive has been calculated to produce in excess of 2000 drawbar horsepower on a train of 529 tons.
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I, like many others will be going to the GCR Gala, Oct10-12th to see her. I cannot help saying that it's disappointing to hear that she is not going to be in British Railways Green Livery with the 'Lion holding the Wheel' Logo. It's 60 Years, this year, since the forming of BR and at the time when these locos where in their prime.
bBr8SjzC3 3 years ago
It's just paint though...
tractor255 3 years ago
Leicester North is capable of holding 9 Mk1s and still be able to run the train around, up to the buffers you can fit around 14 Mk1s but you'd need a loco swap, or a loco on the back.
D123 was there to enable the train to return from Leicester; total train weight was somewhere close to 550ton.
doctorjamie 3 years ago
"up to the buffers you can fit around 14 mk1s"... well you would know ;-)
tractor255 3 years ago
Basic reason would be that you'd struggle to run round 11 coaches at Leicester North, not to mention the peak adding extra weight (total weight roughly equivalent to 15 mk1s). It could also have been used in case of failure.
tractor255 3 years ago