The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Peppercorn Class A1 a 4-6-0 3three cylinder express passenger steam locomotive. Forty-nine original Peppercorn Class A1s were built to the design of Arthur Peppercorn (who was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the LNER) during the early British Railways era, but all were scrapped with the discontinuation of steam between 1964 and 1965 with none of the original production run surviving into preservation. In 2008, a brand new 50th Peppercorn A1 locomotive, 60163 Tornado, was completed. IT was started in 1994 and the cost was about £3 million
The locomotives were designed to cope with the heaviest passenger trains in the post WW2 period on the East Coast Main which consisted of trains with up to 15 coaches / 550 tons. The Peppercorn A1s were able to pull such a train on the flat at a speed of 60–70 mph (95-110 km/h). Like previous LNER Pacific's, the class had a 3-cylinder arrangement. The chimney system was of the type Double-Kylchap.
The Tornado in the Video is on the West Coast Mainline heading North through Tamworth (Low Level)
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