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4 Oct 2025 Saturday

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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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Tornado to visit West Somerset...

10 June 2011

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One of Britain’s best known steam locomotives, the class A1 Pacific 60163 Tornado is due to make another visit to the West Somerset Railway at the end of June and will be operating trains over the...

Tornado Certified for Main Line

09 June 2011

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Following recent boiler repairs at DB Meiningen, planned winter maintenance at the National Railway Museum and a period of running in at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Tornado successfully...

Tornado back on track

08 June 2011

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Tornado will be back on the Network Rail main line today (8th June 2011) with a loaded test run from Tyne Yard to Crewe following her extended winter maintenance period at the National Railway...

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Haynes launch the Tornado Manual

27 May 2011

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Haynes officially launch the new Tornado Manual: Tornado: The Story of a Steam Dream That Came True:  In 1990 a group of people came together to share an extraordinary ambition - to construct a...

Tornado's Brunswick Green Debut...

27 May 2011

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Tornado, the new £3m steam locomotive, will be back on Network Rail on Saturday 18th June 2011 with her debut main line passenger train in her new Brunswick green livery following her extended...

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