The Nene Valley Railway has released an update for tomorrow’s Santa Paws trains.
60163 Tornado was expected to haul the trains, however the locomotive has sadly been sidelined due to a failure.
The service will now be covered by one of the railway’s smaller locomotives and due to this, just one train will operate with a departure time of 11 am.
The Santa Paws train will no longer be hauled by Tornado due to the loco suffering a failure.Â
We will now only be running one service with a departure time of 11:00.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
NVR Spokesperson
Responses
What has happened to Tornado?
Why is the newest steam engine always breaking down, how we forgot how to build them
@Mike_Ashworth, Dont think i had one break down! Serviced poorly yes! And very dirty come the end! They might look like just spit out of a volcano somewhere?
You best go and show them how it should be done
I don’t know if anyone from the A1SLT will see your post and reply, but in the meantime, here is my take on the situation.
I too am pretty brassed off about this failure as I paid 600 quid for a driver experience course on it today. Refundable I know but very disappointing. As a monthly contributor to its upkeep, I know a bit about the loco and what has been going on. From new, in its first decade of service, it did atleast 120K miles without a major service and was never a serial ‘failler’. I’ve done many rail tours behind it and only known one problem where both whistles failed on the same day making it illegal to continue. When its boiler ticket ran out some two years ago, it was stripped virtually to component level and the boiler sent to Germany for refurbishing. That was a disaster both in time scale and quality and probably doubled the time it was out of service. It was rebuilt with a new electronic signalling system to comply with imminent regulations, the only steam loco in the world to have such sn innovation. This too has caused many delays in getting it back into service, not least of all, what the NVR have had to put up with, with cancelled visits. The time out of service and the overhaul has cost the A1SLT millions of pounds and also set back the completion of the new P2 loco considerably, apart from it too, waiting years for its boiler, but I am confident that we shall see Tornado reliable and gleaming out on the main line next year and the P2 serging towards completion also.
Never as failure the. What about the screwup with the boiler, wrong design resulting in poor steaming id say that was a failure big time
Thank you.