An incredible achievement the first steam locomotive built in the UK for fifty years. The first of a few as other new builds come off the drawing board and into the workshops. Thanks to the archivist at the NRM and other places we still have all the old drawings from Crewe, Doncaster, Derby, Swindon and many others from which to build classes not saved during the rape of steam in the fifties and sixties. Now the preservationists have turned their attention to these missing locomotives. Our deepest thanks to the A1 society for having the courage and forsight to build Tornado and kick start the new build programme. Tornado should be with us for many many years to come and show comming generations the glory of steam and the revolution which advanced the wold with such speed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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