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The Winton Train 4/9/08 Harwich to Liverpool Street

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    hatherton hall Well-Known Member

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    Friday 4 September is going to be quite some emotional day as the final leg of a special tour from the Czech Republic to Hoek van Holland then on to London will arrive at Liverpool Street having been steam hauled throughout from Prague by a combination of Czech and German locos and Tornado (keep the diesel off the back PLEASE).

    On arrival at London Sir Nicholas Winton and members of the Czech Embassy plus Minister of State for Transport, will meet the train in what is a commemoration of the same journey made 70 years ago to get 669 Czech children out of Prague away from the Nazi's to the relative safety of England. Known as Winton's children, many of their parents went to the Nazi concentration camps where they perished and no doubt the same fate would have fallen upon the children had it not been for the heroics of Sr Nicholas.

    Expect extensive coverage of the tour on BBC and ITV.
     
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