<p>Brand new steam locomotive <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/60163_Tornado" title="60163 Tornado">60163 <i>Tornado</i></a> crosses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Border_Bridge" class="extiw" title="en:Royal Border Bridge">Royal Border Bridge</a> railway viaduct in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed" title="Berwick-upon-Tweed">Berwick-upon-Tweed</a>, travelling south at the head of <i>The North Briton</i> charter train from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/York" title="York">York</a>.
</p><p>This was the first time <i>Tornado</i> had passed over the viaduct in the southbound direction, having crossed for the first time in northbound a week earlier, hauling <i>The Auld Reekie Express</i> from York to Edinburgh.
</p><p><i>Tornado</i> is brand new Peppercorn A1 class locomotive completed in 2008. The Peppercorn A1 was the last type of express passenger steam locomotive that was used on this route on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line" class="extiw" title="en:East Coast Main Line">East Coast Main Line</a> from Scotland to London. None of the original 49 survived the scrapyard in the change to diesel, and later, electric traction.
</p><p><i>Tornado</i> is coasting at this point, the steam above the locomotive is actually coming from the boiler safety valves and not the chimney, creating a false impression of a steam exhaust.
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Taken at 15:12 GMT from the south bank of the River Tweed, east of the bridge, <i>Tornado</i> was approximately 15 minutes early for arrival in Berwick, and proceeded to Tweedmouth sidings on the other side of the bridge to take on water.
User:Ultra7
2009-03-07
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>