Video: Tornado steam train passes through Welwyn Hatfield
HUNDREDS of interested onlookers flocked to see the Tornado steam locomotive pass through a snow-covered Times Territory at the weekend. The engine is the first main line steam locomotive to be
HUNDREDS of interested onlookers flocked to see the Tornado steam locomotive pass through a snow-covered Times Territory at the weekend.
The engine is the first main line steam locomotive to be built in the UK for some 50 years.
And on Saturday she pulled her first long distance train from Darlington to London King's Cross.
Despite cold weather and a 45 minute delay, throngs of people gathered at Welwyn North, WGC, Hatfield and Potters Bar to see her passage.
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