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29 Sep 2023 Friday

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Stockton & Darlington Railway...

7 Feb 2023 Tuesday

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An award from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will enable redevelopment of heritage buildings as well as a community engagement programme to celebrate the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). The award of £3,211,632, made...

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The new V4, No. 3403, will be...

26 Oct 2022 Wednesday

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The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust (A1SLT) is pleased to announce that their next new build steam locomotive project will be called Highlander. Announced at the A1SLT Annual Convention on Saturday 22nd October, following consultation with...

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Forge Friday!

18 December 2020

Prince of Wales, Our Latest News

Following the initial delivery of motion components from Stephenson (Engineering) Ltd of Atherton work started on machining the four coupling rods.  The next steps included the completion of...

Adding the whoa to the go!

15 December 2020

Prince of Wales, Our Latest News

We continue to accumulate brake rigging for the engine, with the two trailing brake hangers and brake stay trial fitted to the frames. The two brake cross shafts have been delivered and Ed Laxton...

Pony truck progress.

13 December 2020

Prince of Wales, Our Latest News

The pony truck should has been delivered to DLW. The manganese steel hornblock liners have been welded, after which the main pony truck frame was re-mounted on the horizontal borer at North View...

Happy 30th Birthday

18 November 2020

Prince of Wales, Our Latest News

SUPPORTING OUR BIRTHDAY APPEALS It’s hard to believe that it is now 30 years since The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust was formed to build a new Peppercorn class A1 ‘Pacific’. The original A1s were...

First boiler assembly

04 November 2020

Prince of Wales, Our Latest News

Since last year’s announcement of the placing of a £1m order for two new Diagram 118 boilers from DB Meiningen (DBM) significant progress has been made and assembly of the first boiler is well...

Doing the loco's motion!

25 October 2020

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Further significant progress is being made on the locomotive's motion.  All the heavy motion components have now been ordered from Stephenson (Engineering) Ltd of Atherton and work started on...

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