00:00So the train is called Canadian Pacific, and it was built in the depths of the wartime.
00:19So 1941, Britain's all alone in the middle of the war, and it's being supplied by all
00:24kinds of shipping lines to bring the food and the material into the UK.
00:30It was really unusual in those days to actually have a new locomotive, a new class of locomotive,
00:37built and designed.
00:39So the designer, Oliver Bullard, was extraordinary in his ability to persuade the government
00:45to do that.
00:46It's just amazing.
00:47It's the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, and seeing it as you'll
00:52see it in a minute, it is just brilliant.
00:55It's just a great feeling.
01:23It's a bit surreal really, it's really wonderful.
01:27Yes.
01:28Yes, it is really, I don't quite know how to feel, it's wonderful.
01:33We're having a wonderful time.
01:35It's brilliant.
01:36Just tell me, one more time, your connection and why it's so special.
01:40Did you ever think you'd be at this award?
01:42We're connected because my mum and my gran both worked on the engine back in 1941.
01:52Well done.
01:59... away by the echo of steam whistles and the rhythmic pulse of pistons ...
02:04There's a huge amount of messaging for the next generation around Canadian Pacific.
02:09It not only helps us to tell the story of that merchant navy shipping that was celebrated
02:14or commemorated with this enormous sacrifice during the war, which just demonstrated the
02:19extent to which everyone has to pull together in tough times.
02:49.
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