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===Tornado and the brick train=== Starting in 1993, rail enthusiast group [[A1 Steam Locomotive Trust]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=60163 Tornado |url=https://www.a1steam.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118103450/https://www.a1steam.com/ |archive-date=18 January 2017 |access-date=24 February 2017 |website=The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust}}</ref> worked on building an all-new steam locomotive, the first to be constructed since the 1960s. It was intended to be the 50th member of the long withdrawn [[LNER Peppercorn Class A1]] engine, called [[LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado|''Tornado'']] and numbered 60163, from scratch in the 1853 former [[Stockton and Darlington Railway Carriage Works]] at Hopetown. Many of the original fleet had been built at [[Darlington Works|Darlington locomotive works]] in the late 1940s. ''Tornado'' was completed in January 2008. To commemorate the town's contribution to the railways, [[David Mach]]'s 1997 work [[Train by David Mach|''Train'']] is located alongside the A66, close to the original Stockton–Darlington railway. It is a life-size brick sculpture of a steaming locomotive emerging from a tunnel, made from 185,000 [[Accrington brick|Accrington Nori brick]]s. The work had a budget of £760,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Darlington's Brick Train |url=http://www.thisisdarlington.com/attractions/Darlingtons_Brick_Train.asp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106115338/http://www.thisisdarlington.com/attractions/Darlingtons_Brick_Train.asp |archive-date=6 January 2020 |access-date=6 January 2020 |publisher=This is Darlington}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=23 June 2017 |title=Darlington Brick Train celebrates 20th anniversary |work=BBC News |publisher=[[BBC]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-40356417 |url-status=live |access-date=6 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112021229/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-40356417 |archive-date=12 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=26 June 1997 |title=Spotters go bats over a brick train |work=Lancashire Telegraph |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6177023.spotters-go-bats-brick-train/ |url-status=live |access-date=7 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107135447/https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6177023.spotters-go-bats-brick-train/ |archive-date=7 January 2020}}</ref>
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