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The following images were taken of the The Midland Tornado charter. To return to the pictorial listings click here


BR Class 8P pacific, No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester is seen powering through Ashchurch, Hauling The 'Midland Tornado' on Monday the on 26th July 2010.


BR Class 8P pacific, No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester is seen powering through Ashchurch, Hauling The 'Midland Tornado' on Monday the on 26th July 2010.


BR Standard 8P Pacific No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester stands with its support coach in the disused platform at Gloucester on the 26th July 2010.


DBS Class 66 No. 66050 'EWS Energy' approacing Haresfield on 26th July 2010 with 1Z66, 'The Midland Tornado' railtour from London Victoria to London Waterloo via Gloucester, the Lickey incline and Leicester. The tour was steam-hauled from Gloucester with No. 66050 attached to the rear.


Standard Pacific No. 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' and support coach approaching Haresfield on 26th July 2010 with the 5Z69 positioning move from Bristol Barton Hill to Gloucester. The 'Duke' hauled 'The Midland Tornado' railtour from there back to London Waterloo via the Lickey incline and Leicester.


With Wellingborough as a backdrop, BR Class 8P Pacific No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester steams south in the evening dusk, on the final leg of the UK Railtours 'Midland Tornado'.


Running a few minutes late with the 'Midland Tornado' charter, BR Standard Pacific 8P No. 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' passes Wing in Rutland en-route to Corby on the 26th July 2010.


BR Standard Pacific No. 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' speeds through Ashchurch on 26th July 2010 with 'The Midland Tornado' railtour. The Pacific had taken over from Class 66 No. 66050 at Gloucester for the run back to London Waterloo via the Lickey bank, Nuneaton and Leicester.


BR Standard 8P Pacific No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester Approaching Oakham, Rutland, on 26th July 2010, while deputising for Tornado on 'The Midland Tornado'. This trip ran from Gloucester via Leicester.


EWS No. 66050 brings up the rear of 'The Midland Tornado' charter, hauled by BR Standard Pacific No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester as it passes through Oakham, Rutland on 26th July 2010. The Duke was deputising for Tornado on this trip from Gloucester to Waterloo via Leicester.


The driver of EMT 'Meridian' Class 222 No. 222023 exchanges greetings with the crew of BR Standard Pacific 8P No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester as it passes through Corby running a few minutes late with what should have been the 'Midland Tornado' tour on Monday 26th July 2010.


BR Standard Pacific 8P No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester makes easy work of the Lickey Incline during the 'The Midland Tornado' railtour on Monday 26th July 2010.


A panning shot of BR Standard Pacific 8P No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester climbs the Lickey Incline with the 'Midland Tornado' charter on 26th July 2010.


BR Standard 8P Pacific No. 71000 Duke Of Gloucester stands in the disused platform at Gloucester on the 26th July 2010 waiting for the arrival of the Midland Tornado charter.

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