Locomotion Trust 0-4-0 No. 1 'Locomotion'
Shildon, Durham, UK
Location: Locomotion Museum
Status: Operational
Posted: Jan 4, 2025 @ 11:01:49 by Russell Newman
The status of the 1975 built working replica of "Locomotion No. 1", is operational as the replica Stephenson locomotive is being moved to the Great Central Railway for testing and running-in trials as part of the plans to certify it to run on the mainline for the Railway 200 celebrations this year. "Locomotion No. 1" will be at the Great Central Railway from mid-January until the end of February 2025. Afterwords the locomotive and its new replica train of new Chaldron waggons and carriage "Experimant" will then move to the Weardale Railway at Wolsingham in Durham for further testing and trials to measure the locomotive’s water, coal and oil consumption. Which those will determine how its three days of demonstration runs between Shildon, Darlington and Stockton from the 26th to 28th of September 2025, will be pathed to accommodate stops for refuelling and checks of bearings during those special runs then.
Posted: Nov 8, 2024 @ 12:11:17 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on the 1975 built working replica of "Locomotion No. 1", has now been completed by Locomotive Maintenance Services at Loughborough and is now operational but yet to be tested and has just returned home to Hopetown Museum where it will be on display over the Christmas season with some the replica Stockton and Darlington Railway rolling stock which has been built to mainline standards in rediness for the Railway 200 celebrations in 2025 marking 200 years of opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The replica "Locomotion No. 1", will be on display in the Carriage Works at Hopetown from 26th of November to the 31st of December 2024, afterwhich it will undergo testing in the New Year as for part of the celebrations in 2025, it is planned for the replica "Locomotion No. 1", to run on the mainline along part of the orignal route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway from Shildon via Darlington to Stockton in September 2025 which will be a national event then.
Posted: Jan 15, 2022 @ 09:01:12 by Russell Newman
The 1975 built working replica of "Locomotion No. 1" has been relocated to Locomotive Maintenance Services at Loughborough in Leicestershire for a full overhaul to return to steam again in rediness for its part in the bicentenary celebrations marking 200 years of opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 2025.
Posted: May 14, 2021 @ 14:05:58 by Russell Newman
The ownership of the 1975 built working replica of "Locomotion No. 1 is being transferred to Darlington Borough Council. As agreement had been reached with Beamish Museum to transfer the ownership of the Replica locomotive to Darlington Borough Council which was completed in April 2021. Since it was built for the e 150th Anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1975 the working replica of "Locomotion No. 1 has worked for a significant period of time since 1975 and has visited a number of preserved railways and museums around the UK and has even visited Japan and the United States of America for big railway shows and events through its operational career. It is now planned to have the locomotive fully overhauled back into working order and up to modern day standards to enable it to run on the rail network as part of the bicentenary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 2025.
Posted: Mar 11, 2021 @ 09:03:26 by Russell Newman
The 1975 built working replica of "Locomotion No. 1 which was built for the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1975 is being loaned too the Head of Steam museum in Darlington for a few years following a deal with its owners the Beamish Open air museum. The replica needs restoration but there is the tantalizing prospect that it will be back in steam on September 27, 2025, for the bicentenary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway then.
Posted: Apr 1, 2003 @ 06:04:33 by Steve Frost
This replica was built for the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1975. It has travelled around to visit various exhibitions and has appeared in various TV programmes about early railway history. Usually kept at the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish, County Durham. The original loco can be seen at the North Road Museum in Darlington.