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Over the last month the situation has been fluid, as happens with many projects as they reach their conclusion. There have been many variations to the plan, making updates before this time difficult as they would have risked being out of date as...
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We were pleased to welcome the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak, and our local MP, Peter Gibson, to Darlington Locomotive Works today. The visit enabled the PM to hear an update on A1 Tornado, P2 Prince of Wales and see the continuing works...
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Following completion of a major £1m overhaul A1 class, No. 60163 Tornado will return to the national network this summer, with its first train in June 2024 from the East Midlands and Yorkshire to the iconic Settle and Carlisle...
10 April 2009
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Tornado, the first new main line steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost 50 years, will haul her historic first train from London’s King’s Cross station on Saturday 18th April 2009....
Saturday 2nd May 2009 - Covenantors' Spring Day Out on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway The Trustees of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust are delighted to invite you to travel behind Tornado on the...
07 April 2009
Britain's newest main line steam loco, Tornado, spent the weekend of the 4th & 5th of April attending the Barrow Hill Gala. The roundhouse in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, is a rare survivor from the...
31 March 2009
Following the revelation in April's Railway Magazine that British Railways considered applying pre-grouping liveries to some of the A1s we are able to reproduce them here. Matthew Cousins of the...
26 March 2009
On the 24th March East Midlands Trains named one of its Class 222 Meridian trains (222003) after Tornado, the first new main line steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost 50 years. The...
25 March 2009