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Two flakes of snow and the world goes to pot. Enter the latest build steam loco to the rescue. Read the story.

Cloggo reblogged this because I have watched in despair my country being swamped by alien cultures as the invading hordes from Eastern Europe and Asia take my country away from it’s rightful owners. I had given up hope for the English until there happened in the South of England a supremely ENGLISH moment. When “the wrong sort of snow” stranded 100 commuters at London Victoria STEAM came to their rescue. Not any old steam, but the finest and newest steam locomotive ever to run on English rails, the Peppercorn A1 Pacific “Tornado” I have watched A1’s start heavy trains out of Leeds Central up the bank to Wortley and watched them hurtle in and out of York on Kings Cross and Edinburgh expresses and rolled their names off my tongue “Silurian” “Madge Wildfire” and favourite “Alcazar” but I think the choice of “Tornado” was sheer genius on a par with Spitfire for the famous fighter. As to the organisers of the trip that gave a free ride home to those stranded:- Hats Off to you Sirs, you are True English Gentlemen .