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...

Spring 2026

'The Raising Steam Club' over...

New fundraising club 'The Raising Steam Club' already over 50% subscribed! Let’s keep that pressure building! Steam testing the boiler moves another step closer thanks to the...