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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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BR green Tornado on the NYMR

10 May 2011

Tornado, Our Latest News

Tornado is set to make a welcome return to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, in time for the May Bank Holiday week.  The locomotive, which has just been unveiled at the National Railway Museum in...

Unveiling in BR green

06 May 2011

Tornado, Our Latest News

Tornado will be put on display in her new BR green livery on the turntable at the National Railway Museum (NRM), York, on Monday 9th May 2011 in front of hundreds people who funded the...

May 2011

05 May 2011

Tornado, The Tornado Telegraph

May 2011

Changes to Tornado's 2011 tours...

28 April 2011

Tornado, Our Latest News

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, the builders and operators of new steam locomotive Tornado, regrets to announce that it has not been possible to reach an acceptable working arrangement with Train...

A1 Haynes manual launched!

22 April 2011

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The book that every new owner of a Peppercorn A1 should have in the glove compartment.... or maybe a tender locker!   This is a Haynes Manual with a difference.  Published in association with The...

A successful steam test - 15.04.11

16 April 2011

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The A1 Trust is pleased to announce that following rectification work at Meiningen in Germany, Tornado's boiler has been re-installed in the locomotive's frames and successfully steam tested to...

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