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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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March tracklaying progress

23 March 2025

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32 Regiment were on site from 18th November, 18 guys & girls. After an introduction at DLW we walked them round the site explaining the work to be done. In the afternoon work started on...

March ETCS update.

23 March 2025

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All the locomotive and coach electrical systems are now operational.  Priority work during the period has included closing out ETCS project actions and completing electrical certification...

Tornado's Return to the Main Line

06 March 2025

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Last week the A1 completed five round trips on the Nene Valley Railway following final snagging work and the installation of a new grate. The locomotive showed itself to be performing...

Autumn 2024

12 December 2024

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Autumn tracklaying update

08 December 2024

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Whilst noting that progress continues elsewhere with both our A1 and P2, the focus in Darlington must be on getting the track down in time for S&D 200 next year and, thanks to our...

November ETCS update

14 November 2024

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We carried out tests providing power to the ETCS from our existing two locomotive power supplies.  We could do this in the event of a complete failure of the ETCS battery and...

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