Tornado rebuild

[burnie]

Anyone heard anything about the progress? as it's less than 6 weeks to it hauling the first "Aberdonian" of the year, it seems odd it's not somewhere having trials by now.

[Atlantic 3279]

Latest newsletter by e-mail this morning shows three advertised runs cancelled and other Aberdonians will not be Tornado-hauled.

Early LAST year my daughter thought I should be positive and book myself onto one of the advertised Summer 2022 Tornado trips. I resisted, knowing that almost all repairs end up taking longer, and involving more than was originally planned. It's very sad that over a year later than the the date on which I chose not to rely, the loco still won't be ready...

The confidently predicted shorter time for building the trust's second loco seems to have gone to oblivion too.

[60526]

Last thing I heard was that the chassis and tender are at Locomotive Maintenance Services in Loughborough (not GCR) and the boiler is at these new premises in Darlington. Understand that the 2nd batch of boiler tubes have been rejected by their boiler insurance company.

[burnie]

Shame, I too had held back on booking, expecting cancellations.

[markindurham]

Sadly, it's out of the A1 Trust's hands if the boiler insurer has rejected the batch of tubes.

Remember the furore elsewhere a few years ago, when some copper sheets for fireboxes turned out to be off spec, despite what the paperwork supplied with the material said?

[burnie]

Better to do it once and get it right the first time, just a shame for those working on it.

[burnie]

It's been announced the Jubilee "Leander" will haul two of the "Aberdonian" trains later this month, made we wonder if that class ever wandered onto these rails back in the day, I know they went to Perth.

[burnie]

A very short video of the Aberdonian hauled by the Jubilee, there is sound if you click on the link
The Aberdonian by tigerburnie, on Flickr

[burnie]

I see all the scheduled Aberdonian trips are cancelled, I take it the re-build is still behind schedule.