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9 Dec 2025 Tuesday

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Stockton & Darlington 200...

4 Oct 2025 Saturday

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Tornado, Our Latest News

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The 27th September 2025 marked 200 years to the date that Locomotion No.1 hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public passenger railway. To mark the occasion Tornado was in...

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Homecoming for Tornado

16 Sep 2025 Tuesday

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Just over two weeks before the historic 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR), world famous steam locomotive No. 60163 Tornado has returned to its home in Darlington for the celebrations. Significantly, it is the...

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Volunteers and Tornado - 'Best...

09 June 2017

Tornado, Our Latest News

Best of British magazine has named volunteers as the number one thing that makes Britain great, in a list of 250 Things That Make Britain Great, published in its May issue.  The list was compiled...

'Matey' - one last time

28 May 2017

Tornado, Our Latest News

Tornado heads to Cornwall on Spring Bank Holiday and will carry the 'Matey' headboard in memory of the late Ray Towell.  Ray had a house in Cornwall and always felt a strong pull to the west,...

Spring 2017

23 May 2017

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Spring 2017

Tornado - the 100mph Steam...

16 May 2017

Tornado, Our Latest News

Tom Ingall's documentary is now available on iPlayer - click here.  

May 2017

12 May 2017

Tornado, The Tornado Telegraph

Walton-on-the-Naze 150th...

11 May 2017

Tornado, Our Latest News

Tornado will make history when it arrives in Walton to commemorate the town rail station’s 150th anniversary this August.  For the first time people will have a chance to hop aboard a steam...

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