This is the second annual Daily Post York Yuletide Express.
Passenger capacity has been increased after last year’s trip sold out.
Acclaimed railway detective novelist Stephen Done said: “I couldn’t believe I was on the foot plate of one of the world’s oldest steam locomotives.
“What an honour to put my hands on the very controls, as the drivers did in 1837.”
Liverpool’s National Conservation Centre is preparing Lion as a key exhibit for the 2011 opening of the new Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head.
THE Daily Post’s York Yuletide Express on Sunday, December 13, departs Liverpool Lime Street and St Helens Junction. Bookings from Railway Touring Co, tel: 01553 661500; quote AAM for £5 discount per person.
