Follow us on www.a1steam.com David Chandler Travel on one of Tornado’s main line railtours THE A1 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TRUST Mandy Grant The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust organises TH How to get on-board railtours hauled by No. 60163 Tornado that cover Follow uswww.a1steam.com on 30 BIRTHDAY APPEALS the length and breadth of the national railway Visit: with Tornado network. Our railtours have a broad range of starting and pick up points, traverse some of The many ways you can Britain’s most iconic and scenic railway lines and go to many of the UK’s most historic cities and support our work places of interest. Our trains are formed of heritage Mark 1 carriages, which provide a nostalgic journey back in time where passengers can enjoy beautiful scenery as plumes of steam drift past the Gareth Griffiths windows and the locomotive’s distinctive chime whistle can be heard. Whether you choose to travel in Premier Dining, First Class or Standard /A1SLT Class, you can be assured of a magical day out on a railtour with Tornado. For more information about how you can Britain’s 100mph travel with No. 60163 Tornado, please visit www.a1steam.com/railtours, email main line steam locomotive [email protected] or go to the Tornado Railtours Facebook page. Become a weekly Covenantor and help to keep No. 60163 Tornado on the main line. Volunteering To find out more about becoming a Covenantor - regular donor - for No.60163 Tornado from There are many ways in which Mandy Grant Photos: only £2.50 a week, please visit www.a1steam.com, email [email protected] you can help us to build No. or call 01325 460163. 2007 Prince of Wales and keep n... No. 60163 Tornado operating oi The Tornado Team... for Tornado fans aged 5 – 15. Set up on the main line. There Jthe specifically for youngerTornado supporters, this group is vital are opportunities to help to the future success of the locomotive. wherever you live. Tornado Please see our websites and or contact The Trust is conscious that the care of Tornado will ultimately www.a1steam.com www.p2steam.com Team for more information. be the responsibility of today’s younger generation and [email protected] by fostering a genuine care for and understanding of the locomotive in a group of young people, we hope they will Darlington Locomotive Works one day take on that responsibility. At £25.00 for a year’s Visit Darlington Locomotive Works on one of our open days and see where membership, this would make an ideal Christmas or birthday No. 60163 Tornado was completed and No. 2007 Prince of Wales is under present, or mark another special occasion for a young construction. Tornado fan of your acquaintance. Benefits of membership The works is normally open on the first and third Saturday of each month include a Tornado Team welcome gift, regular newsletters between 11:00hrs and 16:00hrs. Special arrangements can be made for and special Tornado Team events. parties from interested clubs and societies. At the time of writing DLW is Visit the Tornado Team page on our website to download closed to visitors due to COVID-19 regulations. Please check further details and an application form or email www.a1steam.com for the current status. [email protected]. Our grateful thanks go to Darlington Borough Council for their continued 3403 ANON support of The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust and Darlington Locomotive Works. Recreating Gresley’s last design An Heir and a Spare In June 2019, The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust announced that A1SLT Jack Boskett Don Brundell it had placed a £1m order with DB Meiningen (DBM) (Steam Graham Nicholas Graham Locomotive Works, Meiningen, a workshop of the Deutsche Bahn, the German Federal Railway) for two new Diagram 118 boilers for its two new steam locomotives. The order is to supply the boiler for new Gresley class P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales and a ‘spare’ boiler for use on both No. 2007 and No. 60163 Tornado. This order will enable the Trust to rotate the Owen Humphries three identical boilers over its two locomotives, with two It’s hard to believe that it is now 30 years since The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust The frames for No. 60163 Tornado, named after Frequently headlined in the press and on TV, Tornado operational boilers and one ‘spare’ undergoing overhaul at any Smokebox tubeplate in the was formed to build a new Peppercorn class A1 ‘Pacific’. The class A1s were the RAF aircraft used in the Gulf War, were initially was the subject of the 2008 BBC documentary one time. smokebox ring. designed by Arthur H Peppercorn for the London & North Eastern Railway and 49 erected at Tyseley Locomotive Works before ‘Absolutely Chuffed: The Men Who Built a Steam The new boilers will be similar to that which was built by DBM for new Peppercorn A1 class No. 60163 were built in 1948/49 by British Railways. However, following dieselisation, all were moving to the new Darlington Locomotive Works Engine’ and received publicity world-wide for Tornado in 2005/6, being a fully welded design with a steel firebox. The Trust owns the design rights to Saint Mungo in 1997. Tornado would be fully equipped for today’s the ‘I S&C’ Plandampf-style trains to mark scrapped by 1966 with the last survivor No. 60145 being the subject Tornado’s diagram 118a boiler and it is intended that a number of minor modifications that have been main line railway and fitted with additional water of a failed preservation attempt. Examples of most of the East Coast Main Line’s the reopening of the Settle & Carlisle Railway in applied to Tornado’s boiler, since it was constructed, will be incorporated into the revised diagram 118b design. famous steam locomotive classes were saved, the most significant gap being their capacity and the latest railway safety electronics. February 2017 and 100mph test run on the East final development, the Peppercorn class A1s. Coast Main Line in April 2017. This was followed by This strategic move by the Trust will reduce the time out The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust was established a second BBC documentary ‘Tornado – the 100mph of traffic for each locomotive by around four months, around several core principles: Steam Engine’ and a starring role in PADDINGTON increase the potential revenue earned by both locomotives • Absolute focus on the mission statement against 2 released in 2017. during each operational cycle and reduce the cost of their which all actions would be judged MortonAlex overhauls. By ordering both boilers at once and leveraging • Fundraising would be a priority and its method the purchasing power of the supporters of both locomotives, simple and affordable – ‘an A1 for the price of a the Trust has saved a six-figure sum that would have pint of beer a week’ otherwise been required if the boilers had been procured • The organisation would use the best business Steve Davies, MBE, and Hans-Udo separately. The first new boiler will be fitted to No. 60163 Tornado during its next overhaul with the second to be fitted Revd. J. David Benson J. Revd. practices by people experienced in the Drees reviewing a drawing in front of Dorothy Mather, widow of Arthur Peppercorn, to No. 2007 Prince of Wales . No. 60157 Great Eastern being scrapped in 1965. appropriate areas the first new boiler at DB Meiningen. lighting Tornado’s first fire onth 9 January 2008. • Due to the requirements of certification and the The Trust is using a variety of funding methods to support the procurement of the two new boilers in By the late 1980s, almost everything that could be nature of the work, most of the construction After 18 years of construction and fundraising with line with its policy of hypothecating the funding of each locomotive. The funding of the boiler for new done to rebuild standard gauge steam locomotives would be undertaken by the engineering the support of principal sponsor William Cook Gresley class P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales and its contribution to the ‘spare’ boiler is coming from The from scrapyard condition had been achieved industry and contractors Cast Products Ltd, the £3 million locomotive was Paddington with our support crew. Boiler Club which was launched in October 2016 to raise £600,000 plus Gift Aid from 300 supporters with new motion, driving wheels and cylinders • The establishment of its own facility for completed in August 2008. Tornado was named by each donating £2,000. manufactured to bring these locomotives back to Since completion in 2008, No. 60163 Tornado has construction, overhaul and administrative TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of life. The next logical step was to build an entirely th steamed over 100,000 miles on the Network Rail functions Cornwall at York station on 19 February 2009 and Charlotte Photography Graham new locomotive – especially as the famous Barry main line and heritage railways the length and breadth • There would be no cliques or any form of in April 2017 Tornado became the first British steam Scrapyard in South Wales only received one ex- of Great Britain on stamping grounds familiar to elitism - everyone would achieve recognition locomotive to reach 100mph for 50 years. LNER steam locomotive. The A1 Steam Locomotive class A1s and many routes that the original A1s based on effort rather than size of cheque book. Whitaker Neil Trust was formed to fill this missing link. never graced. Following her unveiling in works grey, Tornado has worn all of the historic Peppercorn class The formal launch of The A1 Steam Locomotive A1 liveries – apple green, BR locomotive green (with Trust was held at the Railway Institute in York emblem and crest) and BR blue – and has recently on 17th November 1990.