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60163 Tornado in 2010
A4 60019 in 2010
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A1 2-6-4 no.60163 Tornado at Peterborough in 2010
A1 4-6-2 number 60163 Tornado drifts into platform 4 at Peterborough station on Monday 16th August 2010.
60163 waiting in platform 4 for any passengers getting on at Peterborough.
This train was "The Cathedrals Express" to York. Tornado was painted in British Railways early green with the name in full on its tender
LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado
This LNER Peppercorn Class A1 number 60163 Tornado is a new build locomotive. It was built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust at Darlington and completed in 2008 at a cost of about three millon pounds which was paid for by the members of the trust.
All of the 49 Peppercorn locomotives were scrapped before any could be saved.
The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust members decided to make it the 50th A1. They then gave it the next number. They gave it the name of the Tornado jet aircraft. It is painted in the colours it would have had if it had been built in 1949 with full British Railways name on the tender. It has now been painted (May 2011) in BR dark green with the Loin on the wheel British Railways logo on the tender, as this was its next colour an A1 would have been painted in.
It has been built as new build, with all the paper work now required to meet the modern safety and certification standards that all new trains that run on the main line network require today.
A4 60019 Bittern at Peterborough 30/9/2010
LNER class A4 4-6-2 number 60019 Bittern and its twin tenders on the down fast at Peterborough station on the 30th September in 2010 looking in fine shape with lots of steam. Bittern was still in its British Railways dark green.
This train was the "Silver Jubilee" not as the The Cathedrals Express headboard on the train. Bittern was in charge of the train from Kings Cross till York when LMS Coronation Class 4-6-2 no 46233 Duchess of Sutherland took over to Newcastle and the return trip used the same engines.
LNER A4 Bittern 13th November 2010
LNER class A4 4-6-2 number 60019 Bittern and its twin tenders near the Peterborough power Box leaves Peterborough on the 13th of November 2010
This train was 'THE WHITE ROSE' which was from London Kings Cross to York
Page updated 13/5/2020