Railway workers pull a 25-tonne steam train by hand for charity

When a steam locomotive runs out of steam, the traditional solution is to light the fire. The less traditional solution is to attach sixteen determined railway workers and ask them to do the pulling instead.That’s exactly what happened at Didcot Railway Centre, where a team of employees from Alstom’s Reading depot took on an unusual charity challenge to see how far they could haul a 25-tonne steam locomotive using nothing but muscle power.
And rather than simply moving the engine onc