The North Eastern Railway Company ran rail operations in Yorkshire and the North East from the 1850s until it merged into the London and North Eastern Railway in the 1920s.
Tornado was built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust at its site in Darlington and was based on the original designs of Arthur Peppercorn, the last chief mechanical engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway.
Mr Harrison-Putnam said the personalities involved at the time were one of the factors that led to growth in the railway in the west and the north-west of London.