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Major P2 Milestone Reached as...

24 Jul 2026 Friday

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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 three-cylinder monobloc was successfully lowered into the...

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Trust appoints Paul Roe as...

15 Jul 2026 Wednesday

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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 leadership experience together with a lifelong...

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13 Jun 2026 Saturday

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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...

Autumn 2020

02 December 2020

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November 2020

27 November 2020

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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

Prince of Wales, Our Latest News

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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