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    A1 Trust launches new V4 subsidiary for new-build

    Sep 17, 2018 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    A1SLT

    TORNADO builder The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has launched a new subsidiary to build a Gresley V4 2-6-2 at a cost of around £3 million.

    The trust has acquired more than 500 original class V4 drawings from Malcolm Barlow, a Doncaster scrap dealer who launched the now-defunct Gresley V4 Society in 1994 to build a new example of the extinct class.

    The new V4 Steam Locomotive Company Limited will undertake the building of the trust’s third new steam locomotive –

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