Rob Williams Chief Mechanical Engineer for CHR explained: “Austin 1 is a 6 wheeled industrial saddle tank loco built by Kitson in 1935, it spent its working like within the car plant at Longbridge.

Britain's newest mainline steam engine, A1 Class No. 60163 Tornado, completed in 2008, will run along the Cambrian Line between Shropshire's county town and Newtown, in mid Wales, this spring.