April fool! Tornado NOT to be...

TORNADO TO BE RENAMED TYPHOON FOLLOWING RAF JET’S RETIREMENT The A1 Steam locomotive Trust has a long history of running inventive April Fool pranks.... please be assured that this was our effort...

March 2018

Tornado at ten photographic...

Tornado at Ten - Photography Competition We would like to invite both budding and more established photographers to enter their photos of Tornado in her tenth year. The winner will receive two...

Cylinder block fully funded.

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust launched The Cylinder Club to raise £100,000 from 100 supporters each donating £1,000 (plus GAD) in up to eight payments of £125 by standing order to pay for the...

March 2018

AWS issue resolved

Following the recent issues with the AWS system on Tornado we are pleased to be able to report that the issue has been resolved. As an intermittent fault it was not easy to diagnose, nor had such...