25 YEARS OF ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ SUCCESS! …AND THERE’S MORE TO COME!
It may seem hard to believe, but it’s 25 years since the construction of 101mph Peppercorn A1 Pacific No. 60163 Tornado – held by many to be a 21st-century equivalent of Flying Scotsman – officially started on Wednesday, July 13, 1994, at the then British Steel facility in Leeds.
On that day, Dorothy Mather, the trust’s late president and widow of Arthur Peppercorn, ceremonially started the CNC Plasma and Oxy fuel profile cutting system which cut the main frames from steel donated by British Steel.
There were those observers who maintained that building a new steam locomotive of this
