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Summer Tours Announced for Tornado

19 May 2025 Monday

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We are pleased to announce the following dates, that we have agreed with The Railway Touring Company, which will feature Tornado on a range of interesting tours starting in Bristol, London and York taking the locomotive into...

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‘World first’ digitally...

11 Apr 2025 Friday

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This week has seen the start of testing at speed for the world’s first operational steam locomotive to be fitted with ETCS (European Train Control System) technology. Tornado – a modern steam locomotive built in 2008 – is the...

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Tornado to appear on 'The Great...

28 Mar 2025 Friday

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We are pleased to announce that Tornado has been requested to haul three legs of Railway Touring Company’s ‘Great Britain’ land cruise in five week’s time.  Tornado will haul the following...

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Tornado Storms Back to York on...

25 September 2009

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Tornado, the first new main line steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost 50 years, will be heading back to York on Saturday 26th September with ‘The Cathedrals Express’. Tornado has...

Tornado Storms back to York...

18 September 2009

Tornado, Our Latest News

Tornado, the first new main line steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost 50 years, will be heading back to York on Saturday 19th and Saturday 26th September with ‘The Cathedrals...

Website gallery launched...

14 September 2009

Tornado, Our Latest News

We are delighted to launch the official A1 Trust website gallery, featuring some of the very best images taken of Tornado in her travels throughout the year.  All the images are licensed to the...

Didcot competition winner!

10 September 2009

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Thank you to everyone who entered our "Guess the Weight" competition during Tornado's visit to the Didcot Railway Centre in August.  The actual weight of Tornado's steam injector was 134lbs 2oz or...

Tornado heads from London to...

09 September 2009

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In another first ‘The Cathedrals Express’ and Tornado will be breaking new ground on 13th  September when Tornado works the train from London to Exeter via Salisbury and Honiton. This will be the...

September 2009

05 September 2009

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