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A STEAM locomotive to be built in a North-East town will be named in honour of the heir to the throne, it has been revealed. The p2 steam locomotive company announced that its Gresley class engine would be named Prince of Wales, to coincide with Prince The Peppercorn class A1 locomotive Tornado the frames for Gresley class P2 engine Prince of Wales. The engine, number 2007, is being built by the same team behind Tornado and will be the UK's most powerful steam train when it is completed in 2021. TATA Steel in Scunthorpe having fashioned the frames for new P2 class steam locomotive No 2007 Prince of Wales, the heritage project has now progressed to ordering the eight 6ft 2in driving whee..more Building the Prince of Wales is expected to cost £5m and is being done through the Trust’s p2 steam locomotive Company subsidiary. The project is being funded by various means including one-off donations, industrial sponsorship and regular contributors. The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust now wants to build one based on the Gresley class P2 engine - popular in the 1930s. The trust said a feasibility study would examine what costs were involved. Trust chairman Mark Allatt said: "It has long been the desire of which many steam enthusiasts claim made the iconic engine “the most beautiful steam locomotive ever built”. The P2 trust has also paid £5,000 for copies of the original blueprints from the National Railway Museum which require conversion from imperial .

This is good. It produced the Bugatti Veyron, and now it’s going to produce a steam locomotive. And the whole spectrum of manufacturing brilliance will be represented in the P2. At one end, boffins will programme computerised plasma-cutters to produce But loco enthusiasts are steaming ahead with ambitious plans to keep the town’s railway heritage alive - by constructing an updated version of the famous Cock O’ The North locomotive, built in Doncaster during the golden age of steam. The Doncaster P2 Built in Darlington and completed in 2008, the A1 Peppercorn class locomotive Tornado has become an icon of the railways. Some of the key people in that project recently announced plans to build an improved Gresley class P2 Mikado steam engine in the town .

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