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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 Darlington Locomotive Works. Completed in December...
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As planned, Tornado is spending January and February at Darlington for winter maintenance and annual recertification. The work started with a boiler washout and examination, with the safety valves removed for...
24 July 2020
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At the end of July Tornado was back in steam on the main line for a test run to Carnforth ahead of work on the support coach. We were delighted to see the engine in fine fettle after spending...
27 June 2020
It is with the greatest of sadness that the Trust learned today that one of its firmest friends had passed away. Jim Smith has been a friend of the Trust for around 20 years, and for many of our...
18 June 2020
Most will be aware that just as the Covid-19 lockdown was beginning to bite, we moved Tornado to the Railway Museum at York. This should have been ahead of our first railtour this year on 21st...
16 June 2020
With shops re-opening this week, we are all probably wondering what “the new normal” will look like as we continue to emerge from Covid-19 lockdown. We are very much looking forward to the time...
05 June 2020
One year on significant progress made on two new boilers for Prince of Wales and Tornado We are delighted to announce that significant progress has been made on our two new boilers. In June...
09 April 2020
Electrical work for No. 2007 Prince of Wales is proceeding well and the system architecture for power generation is now complete, including an automatic method for directing outputs from the two...