A1 brings 'mercy train' refugees to London

摘要

A packed Liverpool Street station greeted the final leg of an epic 800-mile trip to commemorate a hero of World War Two.rn'The Winton Train' was run in honour of 100-year-old Sir Nicholas Winton, who organised eight evacuation trains in 1939 from Prague to London, saving the lives of 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. The children would otherwise have been taken to concentration camps and certain death.rnTwenty-two of them were on board the 2009 special, along with their relatives and descendents, and were hauled from Harwich to London by Al No. 60163 Tornado on September 4.