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Welcome to the latest T1LC update, first of all apolgoies for no update in May. We had a change freeze in place on the website while it was transferred between hosts so first of all thank you to our orginal host for helping us getting setup and for all there support over the years. Thank… Read More
We are delighted to announce that the company has made an agreement with the owner of 31210 and 31235 to become custodians of these two locomotives for an initial five year period. 31210 has been overhauled by its owner and his team and subject to a bogie swap, is not far from being made available… Read More
Merry Christmas and a happy new year from the Type One Locomotive Co.A massive thank you to all of those that support the group both with physical toil and also financially. Even bigger thanks to the ‘better halves’ of our volunteers that allow us to carry out our work. Over the last sixteen months, the… Read More
Merry Christmas and a happy new year from the Type One Locomotive Co.Also, a massive thank you to all of those that support the group both with physical toil and also financially. Even bigger thanks to the ‘better halves’ of our volunteers that allow us to carry out our work. Over the last four months,… Read More
We are grateful for all of the support that we received but there is no doubting that loco preservation is an expensive business and with all three locos temporarily out of traffic, we are reliant on the continued support of our shareholders. A £10 per month Standing Order goes a long way and we’d love… Read More
28/12/19 D5830 On 27th December D5830 developed a fault with it’s ETH, which wouldn’t stay running. The fault was traced to a faulty resistor, which was replaced and the ETH turned on but then we couldn’t turn the ETH off so we decided to fail the loco. On the 28th December after alot of tracing… Read More
The Board of the Type One Locomotive Company Ltd lament the untimely passing of our friend and colleague, the GCR’s Operations Manager until his retirement, Mr Peter Haylock who died suddenly on the 9th July 2019. This image from superb video captured by Ian Farnfield shows Peter enjoying a bit of 1705 action on 15th… Read More