Alstom’s Greatest Gathering event held in Derby over the weekend of 1st to 3rd August 2025 was aptly named. It was indeed the greatest railway gathering that is likely to be seen in this country for the foreseeable future. Locomotives, old and new, combined with carriages and multiple units of every description were gathered in […]
ASTT has added “Porta Papers Volume 5” to its book catalogue. It fills 340 pages, with 21 papers grouped into five categories: Modern Steam Concepts; Exhaust Systems; Compound Locomotives; Articulated Locomotives; Miscellaneous Topics. The section on exhaust systems should be of especial interest to readers. It consists of three papers by Porta and a commentary […]
The Zoom video recording of ASTT’s 2025 AGM, including Jamie Keyte’s update report on the Revolution project is now available to members – see https://advanced-steam.org/astt-2025-agm/. Please ensure that you’re logged-in before accessing the page. Also, please be aware that the first 25 minutes of the recording is of pre-meeting chat which will be deleted if/when […]
The 9th Annual Conference will be held at the Hopetown Museum (hitherto the “Head of Steam” museum) in Darlington on Saturday and Sunday the 4th and 5th of October 2025. The conference theme will be “Keeping Steam Locomotives operating into the 21st Century”. The first conference flyer was distributed to members on 8th August and […]
Sunday 6th October – visit to Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust workshop at Butterley. ASTT held its 8th annual conference at the Aston Court Hotel in Derby over the weekend of 5th-6th October 2024. 25 attendees were present on the Saturday and 20 on the Sunday. A report on the conference, including PDF copies of […]
ASTT has added a new title to its book catalogue which is sure to be of interest to members and non-members alike. Compiled and edited by Martyn Bane, the title is “Selection of Papers by L.D. Porta (and others) – Volume 4 – Locomotive Boiler Water, covering Water Treatment, Feedwater Heating and Boiler Water Behaviour”. […]
ASTT will hold its 2024 conference in the Aston Court Hotel in Derby. The first day of the conference will focus on Alternative Fuels for Steam Locomotives which will feature five presentations as follows: Bob Gwynne, Environmental and Sustainability Manager at the Llangollen and Corwen Railway, who will talk about the challenges facing the UK’s […]
Welcome news for steam’s engineering fraternity and in particular to ASTT’s members: Adrian Tester has released his long-awaited book “The Physiology of the Locomotive Boiler – Part 1” after at least 7 years in gestation. At our 2017 conference in Bury, Adrian presented what he described as a “Peep” into his planned book, and those […]
Those who have not been able to purchase a paper copy may be pleased to learn that Dave Wardale’s iconic book “The Red Devil and Other Tales from the Age of Steam” is now available in digital form from Camden Miniature Steam – see https://camdenmin.co.uk/collections/digital-books/products/the-red-devil-and-other-tales-from-the-age-of-steam-digital-edition.
‘ ASTT held its 2024 on Sunday 2nd March. The meeting was led by Chairman John Hind and followed the agenda distributed to members in advance of the meeting. The meeting was attended by 20 members (illustrated above at the Zoom meeting), including two stalwarts from the USA – Wolf Fengler and Austin Unruh – […]
In case any members have not received email notification of its release, our Newsletter No 23 was released to the membership on 7th December 2023. It may be downloaded from the link on our Newsletter page. Filling 25 pages, it contains our usual updates on ASTT’s membership and activities, plus three articles of interest: Derivation […]
Revolution’s rolling chassis has been successfully tested on the Stapleford Miniature Railway. Over two days in September, the chassis was ballasted with sleepers and hauled over some 8 miles of track at varying speeds. It successfully negotiated the 18.5m radius curve to the new turntable which is near the limit for which it has been […]