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If you like trains, you might just LOVE this...
I've been given this story...uhh let's see, third- or fourth- hand by a mate of mine who works with British Rail.
Now y'see these trains that pootle around the length and breadth of Britain have a crazy stopping distance, let's see - a MILE and A HALF. Madness, but expected really. So that means you can't just get on the train and drive it; like a taxi driver or a bobsled captain, you have to know the route, know all the curves and lights and points, and where and how much to brake.
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A driver was told to go down to Yeovil in Somerset to navigate for a crew from Darlington, who of course one couldn't expect to know the lines so far south of their usual area. From what I perceived this navigation help seems to be somewhat common. So the driver said okay, I'll do it, and he headed down to Yeovil and looked around for his train.
At this point I guessed the ending, 'the train wasn't there!!'
But no, it was there.
The driver looked at the train, went O.o, then asked a colleague 'Is that my train?' and he said 'Yeah...why, weren't you told?'
This wasn't a normal communter train, oh no...it was the Tornado!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Pe..._60163_Tornado
If you like trains, I think I can hear you bouncing in your seat from here. I know I was.
If you're a little 
, this is a steam train finished in 2008 that IIRC makes regular journeys on the bog-standard rails all the other trains use, and it's max speed is 100 mph - it has to be limited to 'only' 75!! I'd do anything to see this thing go ZOOOOOM past me, let alone ride it...let alone help navigate the thing!!
Now y'see these trains that pootle around the length and breadth of Britain have a crazy stopping distance, let's see - a MILE and A HALF. Madness, but expected really. So that means you can't just get on the train and drive it; like a taxi driver or a bobsled captain, you have to know the route, know all the curves and lights and points, and where and how much to brake.
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A driver was told to go down to Yeovil in Somerset to navigate for a crew from Darlington, who of course one couldn't expect to know the lines so far south of their usual area. From what I perceived this navigation help seems to be somewhat common. So the driver said okay, I'll do it, and he headed down to Yeovil and looked around for his train.
At this point I guessed the ending, 'the train wasn't there!!'
But no, it was there.The driver looked at the train, went O.o, then asked a colleague 'Is that my train?' and he said 'Yeah...why, weren't you told?'
This wasn't a normal communter train, oh no...it was the Tornado!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Pe..._60163_Tornado
If you like trains, I think I can hear you bouncing in your seat from here. I know I was.
If you're a little , this is a steam train finished in 2008 that IIRC makes regular journeys on the bog-standard rails all the other trains use, and it's max speed is 100 mph - it has to be limited to 'only' 75!! I'd do anything to see this thing go ZOOOOOM past me, let alone ride it...let alone help navigate the thing!!
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