Tornado Blasts By

One of my self appointed jobs in Settle is to use social media to tell the local people, and visitors, about the steam trains passing by.   Today it was Britain's new-build A1 Pacific locomotive Tornado hauling a Birmingham - Carlisle - Birmingham train.

It screamed through Settle at full speed at 1620 today.   This superb black and white picture freezes the speed but the body language on the platform reflects it.

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The trail of white steam betrays the whistle of recognition for Settle.