The 9th Annual Conference will be held in Darlington on Saturday and Sunday the 4th and 5th of October 2025. The conference theme will be “Keeping Steam Locomotives operating beyond the celebration of 200 years of rail travel and the 21st century”. There will be presentations on alternative fuels, new-build steam locomotives, and a series […]
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 […]
We are pleased to report that the second volume of the “Porta Centenary Compendium” is now available for sale. At 331 pages, it is over 100 pages longer than the first volume, however we are offering it for the same price – £27 RRP or £21.60 after members’ discount, including UK postage. This has been […]
A new page has been added reporting on ASTTs 2023 conference which was successfully staged in Swindon over the weekend of 7th/8th October. Copies of the 9 presentations can be downloaded from the page in PDF format. Video recordings of each presentation will be added shortly.
ASTT will hold its 2023 conference in the Leonardo Hotel in Swindon over the weekend of 7th-8th October. It is expected that the conference will include around nine presentations, an afternoon outing (to the nearby Swindon & Cricklade Railway), and a conference dinner at the hotel on the Saturday evening. The anticipated admission fee is […]