Lentz cambox progress

An engineering team lead by Graham Nicholas, including Alan Parkin, Richard Peck, Martin Shepherd and Terry Graham, has been established to reinvigorate progress with the cambox. The current...

The arrival and restoration of...

The measurement study of the cylinder block is now complete so the next step was to find a way of lifting the six-ton block. We would have loved to have had a 10-ton overhead crane but our current...

'The Raising Steam Club' over...

New fundraising club 'The Raising Steam Club' already over 50% subscribed! Let’s keep that pressure building! Steam testing the boiler moves another step closer thanks to the...

ADA Club Success: Target...

Target reached – thank you! Launched in March, The ADA Clutch Trial and Design Project reached its £15,000 target before the end of May. An incredible response by P2...

Work progresses on the frames

We've had to replace the 1" Philidas nuts on the locomotive frames as the ones originally fitted were from a defective batch. This task is now complete, in total 617 nuts have been...

Last-Built Class 08 Shunter...

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has confirmed an agreement with Railway Support Services for the hire of diesel shunter 08927 (D4157), which will take up duties as the depot shunter at...