Steam train rescues ice-bound passengers in the UK

[GCP]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8428097.stm

Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England.

Trains between Ashford and Dover were suspended on Monday when cold weather disabled the electric rail.

Some commuters at London Victoria faced lengthy delays until Tornado - Britain's first mainline steam engine in 50 years - offered them a lift.


I love steam trains. I would have loved to have seen this, or been on it!

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More information and nice picture - this train was built new this year - we're back to the future!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8005657.stm

[el_bryanto]

1. what we need are steam powered robots. Those would be awesome

Unless they ran amuck and started smashing things up. Which would still be awesome for those of us who watched it on TV.

Bryant

[GCP]

2. LOL - ever heard of Steampunk?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers (such as Charles Babbage's Analytical engine); these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality.

[frebrd]

3. Beautiful! Thanks! K&R

[liberal N proud]

4. A technology that may not be as out of date as we thought

Steam can pull more than the diesel electrics.