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Celebration of Steam in...

20 Jun 2025 Friday

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This September marks the 200th Anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The eyes of the world will be on the North East for Railway 200, and as part of the celebrations Hopetown, Darlington will play host to a...

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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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25 years ago..... the Trust...

30 June 2019

Tornado, Our Latest News

Twenty five years ago, in June 1994, we made the following announcement: The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust announced today that it was opening a register for those interested in helping to build a...

Vacancy: Steam Locomotive Fitter

23 June 2019

Tornado, Our Latest News

Vacancy: Steam Locomotive Fitter (Engineering Technician) *Previous applicants need not re-apply* An exciting opportunity has arisen to join The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust (A1SLT) as an Steam...

Vacancy: Senior Steam...

23 June 2019

Tornado, Our Latest News

Vacancy: Senior Steam Locomotive Fitter (Engineering Technician)  *Previous applicants need not re-apply* An exciting opportunity has arisen to join The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust (A1SLT) as...

Boilers - an heir and a spare!

21 June 2019

Tornado, Our Latest News

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust places million-pound order for two new boilers for steam locomotives Prince of Wales and Tornado. We are pleased to announce that we have placed a £1m order with...

Tornado Railtours booking...

21 June 2019

Tornado, Our Latest News

There has been an exciting change at our Darlington base as we start taking bookings 'in house' for the first time!  Over the past few months our website and in house systems have been upgraded to...

June 2019

20 June 2019

Tornado, The Tornado Telegraph

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