Frames which will form the 170-tonne locomotive's chassis have been cut at Tata Steel's works in Scunthorpe. The engine, the Prince of Wales, will be built by the P2 Steam Loco Company which also ...

A multi-million pound project has been launched to bring one of Britain's most powerful passenger steam locomotives back to ... on an improved version of the P2 Mikado. The original drawings ...

Students at the University Technical College (UTC) in Newton Aycliffe, South Durham, visited the P2 Steam Locomotive Company in Hopetown Lane, Darlington, on Tuesday September 11 to witness the ...

Our report on the most powerful steam locomotive ever built in Britain, currently being recreated by enthusiasts, was refreshingly free of hype and superlatives Readers of our current issue will have ...

The plan to build a locomotive designed by a famous South Derbyshire engineer has taken a huge step forward. A major part of the Gresley class P2 steam locomotive No. 2007 Prince of Wales has now ...

Gresley class P2 steam locomotive number 2007, Prince of Wales, will be built in Darlington, like its predecessor Tornado. Delivery of the engine's 12 steel tyres means it is already 34 per cent ...

The original class P2 “Mikado” locomotives were the most powerful passenger steam engines to operate in the UK. They were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley to haul 600-ton trains on the Edinburgh ...