BACHMANN COLLECTORS CLUB

Bachmann collectors clubs has now got over 13,000 members when you join the club you have a member bage and members wagons and a mag and a free 2011 calender which all cost £20 in the uk and eire and of the world £30. members allso can buy a BACHANN COLLECTORS CLUB LIMITED EDITION MODEL FEATURES THE NEW BUILD A 1 CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN WORKS GREY LIVERY.

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LNER A2 2-6-2 No 60163 BACHMANN MODEL

BR STANDARD CLASS 3MT TANK

The British Railways Standard Class 3 2-6-2T was a class of steam locomotive. 45 engines were built and numbered 82000–82044. It was essentially a hybrid engine, the chassis being closely based on and sharing a significant number of parts with the LMS Ivatt Class 4, and having a boiler derived from a GWR No.2 boiler as fitted to the GWR Large Prairie and 5600 class 0-6-2 tank engine (the barrel was shortened by 5+¹³⁄₁₆ inches and a dome added). The design work was done at the ex-GWR works at Swindon and it was there that they were built, along with the 2-6-0 tender engine version of the class.

Although a BR standard type they didn't share the same design of wheels as the Doncaster-designed BR standard class 4 2-6-0 (76XXX), which also had 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) driving wheels and the same piston stoke, and hence crank-pin throw.

Bachmann have made 6 of class 3MT TANKS

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THERE IS A GROUP THAT IS BUILDING A CLASS 82

THE 82045 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TUST

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60163 Tornado is a main-line steam locomotive built in Darlington, England, the first such locomotive built in the United Kingdom since Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, in 1960. Designed to meet modern safety and certification standards, Tornado runs on the UK rail network and on mainline-connected heritage railways. The locomotive is named after the Panavia Tornado military jet.

The locomotive was built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, a charitable trust founded in 1990 to build Tornado and possibly further locomotives. Tornado was conceived as an evolution of the LNER Peppercorn Class A1 class, incorporating improvements likely had steam continued, and changes for cost, safety, manufacturing and operational benefits, while replicating the original design's sound and appearance. Tornado, completely new-built, is considered the 50th Peppercorn A1, numbered next in the class after 60162, Saint Johnstoun, built in 1949.

The 49 original Peppercorn A1s were built in Doncaster and Darlington for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). Tornado was built in the trust's Darlington works. The original 49 locomotives were scrapped by 1966 after an average service of 15 years. None survived into preservation, and Tornado fills a gap in the classes of restored steam locomotives that used to operate on the East Coast Main Line.

Tornado moved under her own power for the first time on 29 July 2008 at Darlington, and then spent two months at the preserved Great Central Railway double-track tourist railway in Loughborough, where she was tested up to 60 mph (97 km/h) and operated her first passenger train. Tornado then moved to the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York for three test runs on the main line up to 75 mph (121 km/h). After repainting into LNER Apple Green, Tornado was approved for main-line passenger operation. On 31 January 2009 she hauled her first passenger trip on the main line, The Peppercorn Pioneer, from York to Newcastle and back. By hauling various A1 Trust railtours, charters and other activities, Tornado will begin to recoup the estimated £800,000 debt from the project, which cost around £3 million.

With a shorter rake of 11 coaches compared with the original Peppercorn A1's usage, Tornado is expected to achieve contemporary mainline speeds. Theoretically capable of 100 mph (160 km/h), Tornado will be limited to 90 mph (140 km/h), making her the fastest steam locomotive on the UK main line. Once on the main line, Tornado is not expected to leave it again until 10-year fire-tube boiler re-certification in late 2018.

On 21 June 2009, Tornado featured in the Top Gear Race to the North, coming second to a car in a three-way race from London to Edinburgh, against a 1949 Jaguar XK120 sports car and a 1949 Vincent Black Shadow motorbike.

BACHMANN HAVE MADE A1 LMER No 60163 Tornade in green or works grey.