Thursday 20/March/2025 – 11:54 AM
The Canadian Passevik Al -Bukhari train, dating back to the 1940s, which was transporting soldiers and supplies to the southern coast of England during World War II, returned to service yesterday, with volunteers who spent 14 years in his renewal and relatives of his built.
Bukhari train returns from World War II to work in Britain
According to Reuters, the Canadian Pacific ship, which breathes smoke from its smokers, from Alsford in southeast England, on an opening trip to the nearby Alton, to celebrate the completion of the restoration project that started in 2011.
Stephen Wilson, one of the volunteers in the project, a 78 -year -old retired, said he believed his late mother may have been one of the many women participating in the construction of the train in 1941, while the men were far to fight.
He added with a big smile, standing next to the green locomotive: It is the culmination of a lot of hard work that many people did and seeing is great.
The train was named after Canadian shipping lines in the Pacific Ocean that crossed the Atlantic Ocean during the war to connect military and civil supplies to Britain, and the Nazis has destroyed or damaged many of these ships.
After the Second World War, the train was used to transfer passengers regularly to and from the coast, especially for tourists, and the last time he stopped service was in 2008, and it is now scheduled to restart it to serve tourism trips on the Waterroker heritage line.
The Canadian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Robert Fry, was among the participants in the opening trip.
