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Follow us on www.a1steam.com David Chandler Darlington Locomotive Works Visit Darlington Locomotive Works on one of our open days and THE A1 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TRUST How to get on-board see where No. 60163 Tornado was completed and No. 2007 Prince Follow uswww.a1steam.com on TH of Wales is under construction. 30 ANNIVERSARY APPEALS Visit: with Tornado The works is open on the first and third Saturday of each month between 11:00hrs and 16:00hrs. Special arrangements can be made for parties from interested clubs and societies. Our grateful thanks go to Darlington Borough Council for their continued support of The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust and The many ways you can Darlington Locomotive Works. support our work Volunteering There are many ways in which Mandy Grant Photos: you can help us to build No. 2007 Prince of Wales and keep No. 60163 Tornado operating on the main line. There are opportunities to help wherever you live. Britain’s 100mph Please see our websites www.a1steam.com and www.p2steam.com or contact main line steam locomotive [email protected] for more information. Become a weekly Covenantor and help to keep No. 60163 Tornado Legacy Giving on the main line. A further way in which you can help to keep No. A bequest left in your Will will not be used for the To find out more about becoming a Covenantor - regular donor - for No.60163 Tornado from 60163 Tornado on the main line or build No. 2007 general day to day expenses of running No. 60163 only £2.50 a week, please visit www.a1steam.com, email [email protected] Prince of Wales is by establishing a Legacy. Tornado. If you do not state a specific use, we will or call 01325 460163. Legacies helped the Trust during the construction devote your gift towards the funding of Tornado’s TOURS GUIDE ROUTE MAP 2020 of No. 60163 Tornado by funding specific next major overhaul. If, however you would like components and equipment in Darlington your legacy to be used for something more specific, Tornado’s ‘THE FEN AND FELLS FLYER’ Travel on one of main line railtours th Saturday 4 April 2020 Locomotive Works. Since completion, generous you will need to talk to our Legacy Coordinator Cambridge to Carlisle, crossing the The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust organises railtours hauled by No. Settle and Carlisle Railwaygifts have helped fund the conversion of BR in order to realise your contribution and by doing 60163 Tornado that cover the length and breadth of the national Aberdeen ‘THE CUMBRIAN EXPLORER’ this we will be certain that your gift will be used Saturday 2nd May 2020 Mark 1 E21249 into Tornado’s support coach and railway network. Our railtours have a broad range of starting and Darlington to Carlisle Take in the spectacular viewscontributed from towards the repayment of loans and for a specific purpose. Stirling the Settle and Carlisle Railway and the pick up points, traverse some of Britain’s most iconic and scenic rugged Cumbrian coastline Edinburgh the £500,000 bearer bond. The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust (1022834) is the Glasgow railway lines and go to many of the UK’s most historic cities and ‘THE JORVIK EXPRESS’ Saturday 9th May 2020 organisation that holds the funds for fundraising places of interest. A scenic trip from Liverpool to York projects and has trustees that can accept bequests Carlisle ‘THE PENNINE EXPLORER’ Our trains are formed of heritage Mark 1 carriages, which provide a Newcastle Saturday 6th June 2020 for any purpose linked to it. Durham Leicester to Carlisle crossing the nostalgic journey back in time where passengers can enjoy beautiful Darlington Settle and Carlisle Railway Thirsk ‘THE CALEDONIAN’ Please detail in your Will the purpose you wish Skipton scenery as plumes of steam drift past the windows and the York Saturday 18th July 2020 Leeds Birmingham to Glasgow passing your legacy to be given to, be this No. 60163 Wakefield Liverpool Manchester locomotive’s distinctive chime whistle can be heard. Whether you Doncaster through beautiful Lake District Newton-le-Willows countryside Tornado, No. 2007 Prince of Wales , or any other Chesterfield Crewe A1SLT / choose to travel in Premier Dining, First Class or Standard Class, Stafford Derby ‘THE ABERDONIAN’ on-going project of the Trust. The Trust is governed East Newark Midlands Six dates for Summer 2020 - Parkway you can be assured of a magical day out on a railtour with Tornado. Wolverhampton A scenic coastal trip from Edinburgh Tame Bridge Parkway Leicester Peterborough by a Council and its Trustees will ensure your wish Birmingham March to Aberdeen Ely For more information about how you can travel with No. 60163 Cambridge ‘THE QUEEN OF SCOTSBob Hughes ’ is fulfilled. Saturday 12th September 2020 Tornado, please visit www.a1steam.com/railtours, email York to Edinburgh and Stirling along London the East Coast Main Line To register a legacy please email , call or visit [email protected] or go to the Tornado Railtours [email protected] 01325 460163 ‘THE TICKET TO RIDE’ 3403 ANON Saturday 19th September 2020www.a1steam.com for more information. Facebook page. Liverpool from Darlington and Recreating Gresley’s last design Yorkshire - Tornado’s first tour to Liverpool * Further diary dates will be announced in due course including joining stations in London and the south. © 2019 The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust (Charity registration No. 1022834), Darlington Locomotive Works, Hopetown Lane, Darlington DL3 6RQ 20 An Heir and a Spare In June 2019, The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust announced that Christopher Wörfel. Don Brundell Geoff Griffiths it had placed a £1m order with DB Meiningen (DBM) (Steam 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 Jack Boskett three identical boilers over its two locomotives, with two It’s hard the 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 Firebox tube plates. 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. 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 The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust was established a second BBC documentary ‘Tornado – the 100mph out of traffic for each locomotive by around four around several core principles: Steam Engine’ and a starring role in PADDINGTON months, increase the potential revenue earned by both Daniela Filová • Absolute focus on the mission statement against 2 released in 2017. locomotives during each operational cycle and reduce the cost of their overhauls. By ordering both boilers at once which all actions would be judged MortonAlex • Fundraising would be a priority and its method and leveraging the purchasing power of the supporters simple and affordable – ‘an A1 for the price of a of both locomotives, the Trust has saved a six-figure sum pint of beer a week’ that would have otherwise been required if the boilers had been procured separately. The first new boiler will be • The organisation would use the best business fitted to No. 60163 Tornado during its next overhaul with Revd. J. David Benson J. Revd. practices by people experienced in the Dorothy Mather, widow of Arthur Peppercorn, Taper and parallel boiler barrel sections. the second to be fitted to No. 2007 Prince of Wales . No. 60157 Great Eastern being scrapped in 1965. appropriate areas 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.
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