New boilers for Tornado and P2 ordered – and one for V4 planned
Jul 02, 2019
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By Robin Jones
ROBIN JONES
THE A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has placed a £1 million order for new boilers, one for its new-build Gresley P2 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales and the second as a spare for use by Peppercorn Pacific No. 60163 Tornado.
The order for the diagram 118a boilers has been placed with Dampflokwerk Meiningen (Steam Locomotive Works Meiningen), a workshop of Deutsche Bahn (the German Federal Railway), which delivered Tornado’s original boiler in July 2006.
Furthermore, talks with Meiningen are
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