A truly unique opportunity for an intimate encounter with some of the most iconic locomotives in the UK today. Visits begin in the Viewing Gallery at Darlington Locomotive Works, accessed from within the Hopetown Darlington site. You will travel the short journey to The 1861 Shed by bus and will be met by a guide to complete a footplate tour BR Standard Class 2 78018 (and other locomotives if available). You will then be taken back to Darlington Locomotive Works to take part in a footplate tour of LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 (Tornado),LNER Class A4 4498 (Sir Nigel Gresley) & LNER Peppercorn Class K1 62005. You will then head back onto the Hopetown Darlington site to view the remaining locomotives (unfortunately footplate tours are not available for NER Class T2 63395 / LNER Q6 or the NER Class E1 69023 / LNER J72) but you can get up close to each locomotive. Please allow 90120 minutes for the tour, and ensure you arrive at Hopetown in plenty of time to cross the site ready for your Footplate Tour experience. Please note that these tours involve lots of walking, climbs into and out of a mini bus, and steep, physical climbs up to the locomotive footplates (driver's cabs) and back down again.