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the builders of “We want eight I would like to support Please join The Mikado Club and help us to No. 60163 Tornado the P2 Project and join Prince of Wales the first new main line steam No. 2007 this year: and we won’t wait - built in Britain since 1960 The Mikado Club The Mikado Club – Following the success Club is to raise at least £600,000 from 300 of The Founders Club (to get the project supporters each donating £2,000 in up to 40 let’s make a Mikado!” Yes! to the point of cutting the frames) and The payments of £50 and by March 2016 we were Please complete the form below No stamp is required. We will then send you Boiler Club (to fund the construction of the already over one-third of the way there. and return to: the appropriate Standing Order and Donation boiler) we have decided to establish The If we are to remain on schedule to complete Help us to wheel new Gresley Registration Forms so that we can set you up Mikado Club to fund the wheeling of No. The Mikado Club, P2 Construction Fund No. 2007 Prince of Wales in 2021 we need to Prince of Wales on our systems and reclaim UK income tax paid 2007 Prince of Wales . P2 2-8-2 No. 2007 this year The A1 Trust wheel the engine this year. We have therefore through Gift Aid where appropriate. We set an initial target for The Founders set ourselves the challenge of raising Business reply RTJS-XECR-XARL Why not visit us at Darlington and see Club of at least £100,000 from 100 ‘Founders’ £200,000 through The Mikado Club from 160 Darlington Locomotive Works No 2007 Prince of Wales under construction for but due to the overwhelming generosity of supporters each donating £1,000 (plus Gift Hopetown Lane yourself? We are open 11: 00hrs to 16:00hrs on our supporters we actually raised £450,000 Aid) to the project in up to eight payments of Darlington DL3 6RQ the third Saturday each month. from 360 donors. Our aim for The Boiler £125 by standing order.

THE MIKADO CLUB APPLICATION FORM Special benefits for members of The Mikado Club

Name...... • Reserved seat on No. 2007’s first main line train Address ...... • Reasonable access to No. 2007 at ...... Post Code ...... all times • Exclusive Mikado Club badge Email ...... Telephone...... • Opportunity to join one of the teams I have enclosed a cheque for £1,000 made payable to “A1 SLT – P2 Construction Fund” or building No. 2007 I would like to make four (4) payments of £250 – please send me a Standing Order form or • First choice of other components to sponsor I would like to make eight (8) payments of £125 – please send me a Standing Order form • Special Mikado Club day with Tornado Are you a UK tax payer? Yes No • Special limited edition version (signed/numbered) of Stephen Bainbridge’s new painting Are you a member of The Founders Club for Yes No, please send details of No. 2007 Prince of Wales at Darlington station P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales ?

Are you a P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales covenantor? Yes No, please send details Are you a member of The Boiler Club for Yes No, please send details For further information on any aspect of the new Gresley class P2 please visit P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales ? www.p2steam.com, email us on enquiries@ p2steam.com or call ourhotline on Have you sponsored a component (Dedicated Donation) Yes No, please send details 01325 460163. for P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales ? Yes Are you an A1 No. 60163 Tornado covenantor? No, please send details Together we can build this remarkable locomotive! Are you a member of The 163 Pacifics Club for Yes No, please send details A1 No. 60163 Tornado? To help our marketing efforts, could you please tell us where Join The Mikado Club today! you picked up this leaflet?

...... ✂ Follow us on The Gresley Society Trust How No. 2007 Prince of Wales will look on completion. CAD model showing sources of design: grey is original P2, Altered from an official portrait of Progress to-date yellow is minor redesign, green is Tornado design - No. 2001Cock O’ The North. other colours signify components requiring • Frame plates for engine and rolled and profiled; engine’s frames more extensive redesign. erected at Darlington Locomotive Works; all major engine frame stays, brackets, horn blocks, boxes and buffers cast (44 in total); over 1,000 fitted and driven bolts ordered and delivered • All 20 wheels for engine and tender cast and proof machined; roller bearings for all engine and tender wheelsets and engine and crank pins ordered • Preliminary discussions held with boiler manufacturers It was the eight driving wheels that made the construction and development project not and forged foundation ring corners manufactured and six original Gresley class P2 2-8-2 ‘Mikados’ an opportunity for major redesign. machined; start made on boiler fittings with castings for unique in Great Britain. They were the most • Make maximum use of systems, fittings and combined injector water and delivery valves powerful express passenger processes in use on No. 60163 Tornado - • Study into ride and suspension using rail industry standard to operate in the UK, designed by Sir Nigel any changes to the original design will be Vampire® software completed; Finite Element Analysis Gresley in the 1930s to haul 600 ton trains on either for operational, manufacturing or of improved crank axle design completed to demonstrate the arduous Edinburgh to Aberdeen route. certification reasons. compliance with modern standards; assessment and Notified Body Sadly the design was never fully developed and • Take into account the needs of the appointed to oversee certification - first site visit made they were rebuilt by his successor Edward operator – all decisions will be judged for • Cab trial erected and cab side window frames ordered; engine footplating and splasher kit Thompson into ungainly class A2/2 4-6-2 their value for money. delivered and being permanently fitted to frames “I’ve got a little list... they’d none ‘Pacifics’ in1943/4, and scrapped by 1961. • Meet current and foreseeable regulatory of them be missed.” • Smokebox door pressed, door frame manufactured, smokebox delivered and erected; standards to allow the locomotive to From an engineering perspective, the critical As the builders of No. 60163 Tornado, we have pattern and casting completed set ourselves a new challenge: to develop, operate as intended. task for 2016 is to wheel the engine. The build and operate an improved Gresley class • We estimate that No. 2007 Prince of Wales • Nameplates delivered and chime whistle ordered work involved includes: P2 ‘Mikado’ steam locomotive for main line will cost around £5m to build over a • Over £2m already donated or pledged. • Machining axle and cannon box castings, and preserved railway use. The project to 7-10 year period. As with Tornado, funds manufacturing roller bearing details build the 7th Gresley class P2 ‘Mikado’ is using will be raised through regular donations • Boring eight coupled wheel bosses to the latest computer design and modelling ‘a P2 for the price of a pint of beer a finished size week’, donations dedicated to specific • Assembling bearings and cannon box onto techniques to enable it to deliver its true • Finish machining crank bosses & boring potential. components and commercial sponsorship. pony truck axle • Assembling bearings, cannon and axle crank pin holes and machining & fitting all We have the expertise, the track The new locomotive will: boxes onto plain coupled axles crank pins record and a plan… But this can’t • Be aesthetically similar to class P2 • Trial fitting coupled axles to frame • Trial fitting wheelsets to frames at DLW. happen without you. No. 2001 Cock O’ The North - it is a • Pressing Cartazzi wheels onto axle, fitting We have therefore established The Mikado CAD model showing where we & machining tyres and fitting bearings & Club to raise an estimated £200,000 required Why a ‘Mikado’? expect to be when this appeal is axleboxes to complete the wheeling of No. 2007 this successful. The Whyte notation for classifying steam was often referred to as “the Mikado” and • Pressing plain coupled wheels onto axles, year. This estimate excludes the components locomotives by was the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Mikado had fitting and machining tyres already ordered or delivered such as wheels, devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte in the achieved great popularity in both Britain and • Assembling crank axle, fitting bearings & tyres, axles, bearings and cannon boxes some early 20th century. In the notation a locomotive the USA. axleboxes, pressing wheels onto crank of which are still available to sponsor as with two wheels in front, then eight wheels Although globally the most numerous steam Maintaining our ‘Mikado’ in existence by weight. However, to maintain axle, fitting and machining tyres Dedicated Donations. and then two wheels is classified as 2-8-2. locomotive wheel arrangement, only eight momentum this rate of progress - and complete the The name ‘Mikado’ originated from a group standard gauge ‘Mikado’ tender locomotives Since its launch in September 2013, the locomotive by 2021 - we need to continue Help us to bring the first British standard gauge ‘Mikado’ into existence of Japanese type 9700 2-8-2 locomotives that were built for use in the UK – two Gresley project to build new Gresley class P2 ‘Mikado’ to raise in excess of £700,000 per year. This since 1945 by joining The Mikado Club today. were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works for class P1s of 1925 and the six Gresley class P2s No. 2007 Prince of Wales has made remarkable becomes more challenging as each year passes the 3ft 6in gauge Nippon Railway of Japan in of 1934-36. All had either been scrapped or progress. Over £2m of the required £5m has due to the nature of our ‘P2 for the price To become a member of The Mikado Club, please complete the form overleaf or email th 1897. In the 19 century, the Emperor of Japan rebuilt by 1945. either been donated or pledged and more of a pint of beer a week’ covenant (regular [email protected], call 01325 460163 or visit www.p2steam.com for more information. than one-third of the new locomotive is now donation) scheme.