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Winter 2026

12 Mar 2026 Thursday

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Last-Built Class 08 Shunter...

26 Feb 2026 Thursday

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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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A1 Winter Maintenance

18 Feb 2026 Wednesday

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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...

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2020 Railtours update

16 June 2020

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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...

Full steam ahead with new...

05 June 2020

Tornado, Our Latest News

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...

May 2020

23 May 2020

Tornado, The Tornado Telegraph

Spring 2020

21 May 2020

Tornado, The Communication Cord, Prince of Wales, The Communication Cord, Highlander, The Communication Cord

April 2020

23 April 2020

Tornado, The Tornado Telegraph

Tornado benefits from P2...

09 April 2020

Tornado, Our Latest News

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...

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