A heritage LED locomotive decked with fully controllable colour mixing lights has started to welcome passengers on board for a world first Christmas spectacle.
Steam Illuminations will offer passengers the chance to marvel at a festive light show as they travel between the market towns of Alresford to Alton in Hampshire on the Mid Hants Railway Watercress Line.
It comes after the S-15 freight locomotive, which is one of two steam trains on the Mid Hants Railway s Watercress Line, was left unable to run for four months and lost more than £1million in revenue amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Created in partnership with Purple Lighting Ltd, the light show will feature different colours and flashing patterns as passengers sit inside the steam locomotive, which is fitted with 13,174 fully controllable LED lights.