Major P2 Milestone Reached as...

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust celebrated another major milestone in the construction of Gresley P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales at its Summer Supporters’ Day, as the locomotive’s...

Trust appoints Paul Roe as...

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Roe as a Trustee of the charity and Operations Director. Paul joins the Board bringing extensive operational...

Lentz cambox progress

An engineering team lead by Graham Nicholas, including Alan Parkin, Richard Peck, Martin Shepherd and Terry Graham, has been established to reinvigorate progress with the cambox. The current...

Tornado's winter maintenance -...

Locomotive - We completed the annual electrical exams on the locomotive at the beginning of March.  The headlamps have had their annual clean and repaint, and the electrical gauges in the cab...

The arrival and restoration of...

The measurement study of the cylinder block is now complete so the next step was to find a way of lifting the six-ton block. We would have loved to have had a 10-ton overhead crane but our current...

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