18 November 2020
Prince of Wales, Our Latest News
SUPPORTING OUR BIRTHDAY APPEALS It’s hard to believe that it is now 30 years since The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust was formed to build a new Peppercorn class A1 ‘Pacific’. The original A1s were...
04 November 2020
Since last year’s announcement of the placing of a £1m order for two new Diagram 118 boilers from DB Meiningen (DBM) significant progress has been made and assembly of the first boiler is well...
25 October 2020
Further significant progress is being made on the locomotive's motion. All the heavy motion components have now been ordered from Stephenson (Engineering) Ltd of Atherton and work started on...
17 October 2020
Hornby Magazine substituted a 'virtual' exhibition for their annual show, a two hour long YouTube video featuring many of the exhibitors and their models as well as prototypical projects such as...
01 October 2020
We are delighted to announce that significant progress has been made on our two new boilers. In June 2019 the Trust placed a £1m order with Dampflokwerk Meiningen (Steam Locomotive Works...
29 September 2020
We are happy to report that the first completed heavy motion – two intermediate coupling rods - has been delivered to Darlington Locomotive Works only seven years after the launch of the project...