Cheerio as Pacifics cross the Atlantic
A GROUP of cheerleaders dropped into the National Railway Museum in York to give two guest locomotives a North American goodbye.
The small display team from the University of York’s York Hornets squad helped the museum say farewell to Dwight D Eisenhower and Dominion of Canada repatriated from Wisconsin in the USA and Montreal, Canada, for last year’s 75th anniversary of another A4 Pacific locomotive – Mallard – designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, breaking the world steam speed record. Last year, history was made in York as Mallard was united with its five surviving sister engines at the museum.
Senior curator Anthony Coulls said: ‘Mallard fans have another few days to get up close to the record breaker – its last day on display in the Great Hall before it leaves for a month is Tuesday January 28.’
Picture: Gary Longbottom.