So you want to build a NEW STEAM LOCO?

OWNERS and operators in the heritage sector embarking on a new build or a substantial rebuild, can call upon Ricardo Certification to provide the professional guidance your project requires and put you on the right route to certification.

But professional standards haven’t always been so rigorously applied.

Private locomotives (ie: industrial) were always permitted to run on BR lines, subject to registration and the occasional inspection from a BR inspector. This rule applied equally to passenger-hauling steam locomotives from when the steam ban was broken in 1971 to the date of Privatisation.