Tornado to MOSI

Hope he gave you a decent tip Ralph.

 

Parkside

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One can only hope that Mr OBE's replacement, Mr Hill, remembers that his museum is the oldest railway station in the world, and continues the revival of bringing real rail exhibits into the site.

No doubt the railway orientated employees at MOSI are adept at managing their managers

 

For those interested in such minutiae, I can now list the stock of the Royal Train as it travelled to MOSI on 4 February 2010

A1 Class 4-6-2 No 60163 Tornado
Locomotive’s support coach No 14007
Royal Train support coach 2921
Duke of Edinburgh’s saloon No 2904
Prince of Wales’s sleeping car No 2922
Royal Household saloon No 2923
Prince of Wales’s dining car No 2916
Royal Household saloon No 2917
Royal Household saloon No 2915
Royal Train support coach 2920
Diesel Class 67 No 67005 Queen's Messenger

Acknowledgments:
Report of consist on the day:
http://andrewstransport.fotopic.net/p63185521.html
Function of coaches: The Royal Train – The Inside Story by Brian Hoey

My 12 pictures that day are at http://pjhrailpics.fotopic.net/

Peter, on a grey damp Manchester morning
http://pjhrailpics.fotopic.net/

 

The only thing missing was class 67 The Queen's Messenger on the back

 

Quite right DJH, my apologies and I have edited my post to include No 67005

Peter, on a Manchester morning with no change in the weather
http://pjhrailpics.fotopic.net/

 

No worries. I saw the 67 when I was at MoSI. Lovely pictures from the visit. (maybe one day I'll join the fototopic community)

Regards

Duncan

 

Not knocking it, but what was the purpose of this royal train trip ?
There was no national tv coverage and Tornado's pulling of the train seemed to have little to do with the purpose of Charles visit to Manchester ?

How much cheaper would the trip had been if Charles had traveled by First Class pendolino, or flight from London and then had a ride behind the MOSI's Planet replica ? for the much the same level of publicity ?

 

The purpose - inter alia ..............

was for Big Ears to lecture us on the futility of being sceptical about Global Warming being a man made phenomenum

For this he came to Manchester by steam train

You couldn't write it could you????

 

Although it didn't make national it was certainly on the regional news. Regarding tornado I about as clueless on the issue. Charles and Camilla only arrived on the royal train. The manchester evening news video on the manchester visit explains this better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2zilzrbfjI

It made sense in some respects to arrive by rail as He was visiting MOSI as part of His engagements and Corrie is only next door.

Regards

Duncan