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December 2020

11/12/2020

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Did you know that Tornado weighs 166 tons ? This is more than twice the weight of the space shuttle Endeavour !

Click here to keep her on the mainline: http://ow.ly/occ350DcjNu

📸 Credit: In warm sunshine ‘The Easterling’ passes Santon Downham – Don Brundell

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21 Jan

Throwback Thursday

11 years ago today TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall arrived at the world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station by Royal Train, pulled by Tornado.

📸 Credit: Geoff Griffiths
#tbt#royaltrain

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18 Jan

Today might be 'Blue Monday' but we are certainly not allowing it to get us down ! Instead, we are reminiscing brighter times out on the mainline with Tornado in BR Blue Livery.

📸 Credit: Tornado runs along the North Wales coast - Geoff Griffiths

#bluemonday#brblue

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