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A1 Winter Maintenance

As planned, Tornado is spending January and February at Darlington for winter maintenance and annual recertification.  The work started with a boiler washout and...

Engineering Director Opportunity

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, a registered charity, is seeking a Director to lead the engineering teams looking after its locomotives. Since forming in 1990, the Trust has enjoyed great...

Podcast Project covers the P2...

In December, the Trust was contacted by Hayden and Daniel, two media students at Totton College. They requested an interview for a short, one-off podcast on new build locomotives,...

Railtour round-up

What a summer! Clocking up an impressive 8,859 miles in 2025, it's hard to know where to begin, but what could be better than where we left off in the last TCC at the Nene Valley Railway. Our...

Darlington Locomotive Works...

The celebrations to mark the bicentenary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway consumed several weeks at the end of September and start of October, encompassing 'The Titans of Steam'...

Stockton & Darlington 200...

The 27th September 2025 marked 200 years to the date that Locomotion No.1 hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public passenger...