2016

SO7289 : 60163 Tornado locomotive at Eardington Halt

taken 8 years ago, near to Chelmarsh, Shropshire, England

60163 Tornado locomotive at Eardington Halt
60163 Tornado locomotive at Eardington Halt
69163 Tornado is the only LNER Peppercorn Class A1 locomotive in the world, having been built as a near-replica of the type used by British Rail into the 1960s. She was built between 1994 and 2008 in Darlington, and commenced trials and operation later that year, running on both main line and heritage railways.
She has featured in a number of national television programmes, including a BBC documentary about the construction of the loco, and as the engine which pulled the train in the rather well-known 'Top Gear' race from London King's Cross station to Edinburgh Waverley. The train was narrowly (10 mins) beaten by a 1949 Jaguar XK120. However, without water stops, the train would have been there well over an hour earlier than the car.
Here, in late 2016, the loco is on the Severn Valley Railway, as part of a steam festival also featuring The Flying Scotsman
60163 Tornado

LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado started being built in 1994 by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, a charitable trust founded in 1990. The construction was carried out by Locomotive Construction Co Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of the A1 Trust. Tornado moved under her own power for the first time on 29 July 2008 and operated her first passenger train at the Great Central Railway double-track tourist railway in Loughborough, where she was tested up to 60 mph. On 31 January 2009 she hauled her first passenger trip on the main line, The Peppercorn Pioneer, from York to Newcastle and back. The original Peppercorn A1 series was ordered by the LNER but the 49 locomotives were built at Doncaster and Darlington for British Railways in 1948–49 and none survived.


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Geographical Context: Railways Primary Subject: Railway Locomotive
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Severn Valley Railway Line [9] · Eardington Halt [7] · Flying Scotsman [5] · Railway Station [5] · Locomotive [3] ·
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SO7289, 109 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Richard Law   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 24 September, 2016   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 24 September, 2016
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 7295 8936 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:30.0878N 2:23.9947W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SO 72943 89401
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South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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