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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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Nene Valley competition winners

25 May 2012

Tornado, Our Latest News

The winners of our competitions held at the Nene Valley Railway and The Fab Four at Barrow Hill were: Nene Valley Railway : for guessing how many miles Tornado travelled whilst on NVR metals was ...

Tornado to miss Preston Guild

09 May 2012

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We are very disappointed to announce that we are unable visit the Ribble Steam Railway (RSR) with Tornado as previously announced. It was necessary to withdraw the locomotive from this visit...

50,000 miles and counting!

24 April 2012

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Tornado has achieved yet another milestone during her visit to the Llangollen Railway.  Whilst operating trains on the 22nd of April she clocked up her 50,000th mile in traffic, reaching...

Steel, Steam & Stars III - more!

19 April 2012

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STEAM locomotives from the four corners of Britain have begun converging on the superbly-scenic Llangollen Railway on the Shropshire/Cheshire/Denbighshire borders, arriving in convoys by heavy...

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