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telegraph No. 17 February 2011 Peter Neesam Welcome...... to the seventeenth edition of The Tornado Telegraph. Work on the boiler is progressing on schedule at DB Meiningen. Although Tornado’s boiler is still due to return to York at the end of March, Tornado’s first mainline appearance will now be on Thursday 26th May hauling ‘The Cathedrals Express’ from London to Bristol for Steam Dreams. I regret that ‘The White Rose’ has now been cancelled (with passengers offered the opportunity to transfer to Tornado’s first East Coast Main Line train, ‘The Cathedrals Express’ from London King’s Cross to York on Saturday 4th June) and tours planned for before 26th May will now be headed by other locomotives. In view of the cost of boiler refurbishment and consequent loss of tour revenue, the Trust is seeking to raise funds from as many sources as possible. Please read ‘Help The Trust’ overleaf for details of how you can assist. Ian Matthews applies the early British Railways [email protected] emblem to the newly-painted Brunswick Green Editor of The Tornado Telegraph tender at the National Railway Museum York.

l Wanted – Volunteers to get your help with this coach currently at News briefs Tornado Running - Volunteers willing the NRM in York. It needs a thorough to get their hands dirty are urgently clean inside and out before we launch l Winter Maintenance required from now until probably the into this years mainline season. Jon – Work on Tornado’s firebox continues end of April. The immediate need is Pridmore will be organising several at DB Meiningen as planned and on for volunteers during March each day working days over the next few weeks. schedule. New sections of plate are Monday to Friday for cleaning nuts, If you can help please contact being fitted to both sides of the firebox bolts, pipework, cladding panels, etc. [email protected]. for preventative maintenance reasons. There is also painting to be done of In addition 1,100 boiler stays are to be items that are not visible externally. If l Thursday 26th May – is replaced (650 as a result of the plate anybody has any extensive experience the planned date for Tornado’s return renewal) and four new corners are to of painting metal, would they please to service in her new Brunswick be fitted to the foundation ring. A boiler indicate this? In April, once the boiler is Green livery hauling ‘The Cathedrals hydraulic test will then be carried out back, there will be a need for three or Express’ for Steam Dreams from at Meiningen. These repairs will cost four ‘fitter’s mates’ seven days a week London to Bath and Bristol. For details no more than £50,000. The boiler will to fetch and carry and generally assist see overleaf. then be returned to the UK at the the people putting the locomotive back end of March. This will be followed by together again. All work will be carried l an in-the-frames steam test and rapid out at the National Railway York. If Support Coach – Funding has reassembly of the locomotive. Note that you are able to help, please contact now reached £30,400. So 25 feet 4½ all other scheduled winter maintenance [email protected] as inches of the target 63 ft 6 inches of the work will be completed before the soon as possible. coach have been supported. return of the boiler to the National Railway Museum York. Tornado will then l Also Wanted – Volunteers to l Covenantors – Have you conduct light engine work and loaded Spring Clean the Support Coach – received your 2011 Covenantors’ Card? test runs before being made available The Support Coach currently used is on If not, please contact gordon.best@ for traffic. temporary loan to the Trust. We need a1steam.com. ➤ Support Coach funding has now reached 40% of the target. To help fill the remaining 60%, please see the ‘Use Your Loaf’ flyer attached to this issue

2011 Tour Programme Currently confirmed dates are: Steam Dreams l  Thu 26th May – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ Temple Meads-Weston-Super-Mare-Taunton- www.steamdreams.com – London Victoria-East Croydon-Redhill- Torquay-Kingswear and return – Torbay Express tel: 01483 209888 Shalford-Guildford-Bath-Bristol and return l  Sun 31st July – ‘The Torbay Express’ – Bristol – Steam Dreams Temple Meads-Weston-Super-Mare-Taunton- email: info@steamdreams. l  Sat 4th June – ‘The Cathedrals Express’- Torquay-Kingswear and return – Torbay Express co.uk London King’s Cross-Potters Bar-Stevenage- l  Thu 4th August – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ Peterborough-York and return – Steam Dreams – Cambridge-Whittlesford-Harlow Town-

l  Sat 11th June – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ Broxbourne-Tottenham Hale-Ealing Broadway- Pathfinder Tours – London Paddington-Slough-Maidenhead- Bath-Bristol and return – Steam Dreams www.pathfindertours.co.uk Reading- Hereford-Ludlow-Shrewsbury and l  Sat 6th August– ‘The Cathedrals Express’ tel: 01453 835414 return – Steam Dreams – London Euston-Nuneaton-Worcester and email: office@ l  Sat 18th June – ‘The Canterbury Tornado’ return – Steam Dreams pathfindertours.co.uk – Poole-Brankscombe-Bournemouth- l  Sat 13th August – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ Christchurch-Brockenhurst-Southampton – London King’s Cross-Potters Bar-Stevenage- Central-Fareham-Cosham-Havant-Willesden Peterborough-York and return – Steam Dreams Torbay Express Junction-Canterbury and return via London l  Wed 17th August – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ www.torbayexpress.co.uk Victoria (Tornado from Willesden Junction via – London Victoria-Staines-Woking-Weymouth tel: 01453 834477 Canterbury to London Victoria) – Pathfinder and return – Steam Dreams email: contact@ Tours l  Sun 21st August – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ torbayexpress.co.uk l  Sat 2nd July – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ – London King’s Cross-Potters Bar-Stevenage- – London Paddington-Slough-Reading-Newbury- Cambridge-Ely-Norwich and return – Steam Taunton (for West Somerset Railway or Exeter- Dreams Barrow Hill Minehead-Plymouth) and return. Tornado from l  Thu 25th August – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ Roundhouse London Paddington to Taunton and return; LMS – London-Sheffield-Manchester and return 8F 48151 from Taunton to Plymouth and return – Steam Dreams www.barrowhill.org – Steam Dreams l  Sat 10th September – ‘The Cathedrals tel: 01276 472450 l  Thu 7th July – ‘The Cathedrals Express’ – Express’ – London Euston-Milton Keynes London Victoria-Staines-Ascot-Reading-Swindon- Central-Rugby-Chester and return – Steam Gloucester-Cardiff and return – Steam Dreams Dreams l  Sun 10th July – ‘The Torbay Express’ – Bristol l  Thu 15th September – ‘The Cathedrals Temple Meads-Weston-Super-Mare-Taunton- Express’ – London King’s Cross-Potters Bar- Torquay-Kingswear and return – Torbay Express Stevenage-Lincoln Central and return – Steam l  Sun 17th July – ‘The Torbay Express’ – Bristol Dreams Temple Meads-Weston-Super-Mare-Taunton- l  Sat 8th October – A1 Steam Locomotive Trust Torquay-Kingswear and return – Torbay Express annual Covenantors’ Convention – Barrow Hill l  Sun 24th July – ‘The Torbay Express’ – Bristol Roundhouse, Chesterfield

Help the trust Published by The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, With Tornado currently out of action, and repairs to fund and a support coach to Darlington Locomotive Works, your support as Covenantors, Donors and convert – see www.a1steam.com > How You Hopetown Lane, Volunteers is especially welcome. Can Help > Become a Covenantor for details. DARLINGTON, DL3 6RQ. l Legacy Programme – We have l Volunteers – Do you have skills that www.a1steam.com; recently introduced a new Legacy Giving could help the Trust? We can always use facility. See www.a1steam.com > Latest extra pairs of hands. So whether your [email protected] News > ‘Afore Ye Go or contact roger.dye@ talents involve engineering (especially l Edited by a1steam.com for details. now that work has started on the support [email protected] l Covenantors – We always welcome coach), locomotive cleaning, selling or back l new Covenantors and donations as we still office work, we need your help. Contact Designed by have the Bearer Bond to pay back, overhauls [email protected] for more details. Debbie Nolan