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Engineering Director Opportunity

3 Feb 2026 Tuesday

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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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Podcast Project covers the P2...

3 Feb 2026 Tuesday

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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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P2 Boiler Delivered

10 Dec 2025 Wednesday

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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...

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An audience with Prince of Wales

20 December 2016

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AN AUDIENCE WITH THE PRINCE OF WALES COMING TO LONDON - Update on the project to build Britain’s most powerful steam locomotive. The project to build Britain’s most powerful steam locomotive...

December 2016

01 December 2016

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P2 Roadshows for 2017

23 November 2016

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The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has recently announced that it will be holding a series of presentations on the project to build new Gresley class P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales at venues along the...

November 2016

01 November 2016

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Getting the balance right!

31 October 2016

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It is intended to avoid the very time consuming and expensive work required to balance Tornado's coupled wheels. This was achieved by the traditional method of making weights to hang on the crank...

No. 2007 gets its 'face' just...

04 October 2016

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The project to build new Gresley class P2 steam locomotive No. 2007 Prince of Wales continues to make rapid progress, with the locomotive’s ‘face’ now complete, only three years since its launch...

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