Brilliant!!

[stiz]

just goes to show they dont make em like they used to

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8428097.stm

 

[Chacha]

Absolutely Brilliant... Steam Train

 

[Kofschip]

Some of the greatest live machines are the steam engines. They actually breathe.....

 

[Wing_Z]

100 years ago, it was a race between electric and steam.
Then there was the brief interlude of the oil century...
Steam will have its day again, burning low-carbon molasses from Pategonian corn husks or somesuch.

 

[Cazzie]

I read about that in the modeling forums, a brilliant solution to the UK's icing problems of late. I would so love to get some photos.

Caz

 

[Panther_99FS]

:ernae::ernae:

 

[Willy]

Gotta love those old steam locomotives! I'd like to see them make a comeback.

 

[CBris]

I used to travel regularly on steam driven trains...

Wonderful? You must be p....d!! Stinky, smelly, noisy, uncomfortable. Who are you kidding?

OK, so the electrics failed and BR had to "resort" to accepting help from steam. A diesel could have done the job - or better maintenance on the lines.

OK, call me a grumpyguts if you want