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- Following the successful project to build A1 Tornado, in 2013 The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust launched its second project to build a Gresley Class P2, based on the original 1934 design. With the need to resolve key design issues made possible with 21st century technology the forecast is for a fifteen year build and a cost of around £6.5m.
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The London and North Eastern Railway Class P2 was a class of 2-8-2 steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for working heavy express trains over the harsh Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line. As they were to serve on Scottish expresses, they were given famous names from Scottish lore.
To be named Prince of Wales, the new P2 Class locomotive will operate across the UK and justify the claims that the original Gresley design was Britain’s most powerful passenger steam locomotive. Support the Trust. Get on board with us for as little as the price of a pint or a cup of coffee.
Oct 26, 2021 · Heritage Railway. New P2 now two-thirds built. 2021-10-26 - By Robin Jones. THE project to build the seventh example of Sir Nigel Gresley's P2 2-8-2s, No. 2007 Prince of Wales, is two-thirds complete, The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has announced. More than £4 million of the estimated required £6 million has now been raised since the groundbrea ...
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The following details are for the P2/3 and P2/2 (streamlined) variants.Mechanically these were the same before streamlining, although No. 2001 "Cock o'the North" was fitted with LentzR.C. motion with 8" poppet steam and 9" poppet exhaust valves. The total heating surface was also slightly larger (3490.5 sq.ft). This was converted to match the other...
All of the P2s were rebuilt as A2/2, and neither the P2s nor the A2/2s survived into preservation. However, there are currently two projects to build a new P2. The P2 Steam Locomotive Company Ltd has been founded by many of the people who built No. 60163 Tornado, and intends to build a P2 with the original Cock o' the Northstreamlining.A second pro...
Hornby sell ready-to-run models of the P2 for OO gauge. Nu-Cast produce a 4mm scale (OO gauge) kit of the P2 in both of its body types. A kit is also available from Proscale. Crownline, Fulgarex, and Ks Loco Kits have all produced kits of the P2 for 4mm scale, but they are no longer available. 7mm scale (O gauge) models are available as a kit from ...
All six locomotives had names related to the area surrounding the Edinburgh to Aberdeen line: Cock o' the North was the nickname given to George, the Fifth Duke of Gordon (1770 to 1836).The name was previously used on Atlantic C10 No. 9903which was renamed Aberdonian. Earl Marischal was the hereditary title of the Keith family, whose seat (Dunnotta...
Thank you to Dennis Butler for the side photograph of P2 No. 2001 Cock o' the Northat the top of this page. Thanks to Bob Anderson for the photograph of the cannon 'Mons Meg' at Edinburgh Castle.
BUILDING A LEGEND: The Gresley ‘P2’ 2-8-2. Modern design methods and a brand-new facility are helping to shape construction of Britain’s most powerful steam locomotive in Darlington.
Apr 7, 2022 · The P2 Steam Locomotive Company has released the latest update on progress to build a class P2 2-8-2 Mikado. Sir Nigel Gresley designed P2s to haul 600-ton trains on the arduous Edinburgh to Aberdeen route and were the most powerful express passenger locomotives to operate in the UK.
This locomotive was scrapped in 1964. Public interest in seeing a new Gresley class P2 become a reality sooner rather than later is high with almost 900 people having already signed up to the ‘P2 for the price of a pint of beer per week’ (£10 per month or more) Covenant scheme since its launch.
