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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 success building and operating A1 Class No. 60163...
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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, evaluating the pros and cons of new build steam. In the...
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The project to build Britain’s most powerful steam locomotive celebrated a significant milestone on Tuesday 9th December with the delivery of the locomotive’s boiler. The boiler is the single largest component required for the...
18 December 2020
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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...
15 December 2020
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...
13 December 2020
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...
02 December 2020
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27 November 2020
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18 November 2020
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...