Feb - Mar 2003 - Locomotives International Issue 65 published a letter from Chris Newman under the title "Is Steam Preservation Forever?" in response to an earlier editorial commenting on the destruction of two "preserved" locomotives by a Belgian museum.

Feb 2003 - the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Railway Division, whilst not a "press" publication per-se, published a the paper by Roger Waller that was presented to the Institution's Railway Division under the auspice of the "Sir Seymour Biscoe Tritton Lecture". The paper was titled "Modern Steam - An Economic and Environmental Alternative to Diesel Traction".

Feb 2003 - Steam Railway Issue 279 published an article about the National Railway Museum (York). Chris Newman responded with a letter published in SR's March issue SR-280 under the title "Wardale '5AT' is key to keeping steam 'flat-out'" in which he suggested that the 5AT will be essential for keeping interest in steam alive in the future. A response from Paul Mercer was published in SR-282 titled "Much as we may love it, steam has had its day" which suggested that the proposal for the 5AT was equivalent to returning to propellers instead of jets on airliners. This in turn drew responses from John Duncan and Mike Horne titled "'Old' Steam could gain from 5AT, says engineer" and "Why shouldn't steam be allowed to progress?" which appeared in SR's May 2003 issue SR-283. A letter from Martyn Bane written in response to the Chris Newman's SR-281 letter remains unpublished.

March 2003 - The Engineer Vol 16 Issue 03 (published by Institution of Mechanical Engineers) published an article titled "Steam Ready to Ride again on the Rails".

April 2003 - Heritage Railway published a letter from Alan Fozard titled "Wardale's Plan for High Speed Steam" in their April 2003 issue.

April 12th 2003 - The Guardian  ran an article by Jonathan Glancy on the "The Wolsztyn Experience" titled All Fired Up".

May 2003 - Steam Railway Issue 283 published an article by David Ward titled "Has Mainline Steam got a Future?".  June's issue 284 included a letter from Martyn Bane suggesting that the 5AT will hold the key to the future of mainline steam operation. The same issue included a letter from Ian Pow titled "5AT is our best hope".

August 2003 - Steam Railway Issue 286 published two articles and two letters relating to modern steam and to the 5AT project. A letter from Malcolm Cluett drew attention to the successful operation of modernized R class steam locomotives operating regular trains for West Coast Rail in Australia and suggested that a 5AT locomotive would provide the solution to the problems of running steam on the main line in the future. An obituary to L.D. Porta quoted from his recent letter where he wrote "when the 5AT runs, there will be an avalanche of steam buildings" (see also reference to L.D. Porta on this website). An article on the subject of the Barry Ten mentioned the possibility of upgrading one of the locomotives (Black 5 44901) into a Super 5, though without specific reference to the 5AT project. And a letter from Ian Smith of Carlesbrook suggesting that Ian Riley should get in touch with David Wardale to discuss upgrading 35009 to bring its performance up to 21st Century standards.

Aug 2nd 2003 - The Guardian published an obituary to L.D. Porta titled "The Engineer who transformed Steam Technology" (text trasnscribed into PDF here).

August 28th 2003 - Cambrian News published an article about modern steam developments on the FCAF railway in Argentina, with brief reference to the "designing and building of a new steam locomotive to 21st century standards" (i.e. the 5AT).

Sept 2003 - The Engineer published an article called "Full Steam Ahead?" by Max Glaskin, advocating a return to steam traction and listing instances where this is already happening. The article includes mention of the 5AT project.

Autumn 2003 - Continental Railway Journal issue No.135 published an obituary to L.D. Porta.

September 2003 - Locomotives International Issue 67 published an article titled "The 5AT Project - Where is it at? Where is it going?" by Chris Newman, which attempted to answer precisely those two questions.

September 2003 - LOK Report (Germany) published an obituary to L.D. Porta (in the German language, with an English translation kindly supplied by Cris Vande Velde)

October 2003 - Steam Railway Issue 288 published a brief notification of Alan Fozard's inaugural 5AT presentation at the 1st International Steam and Tourist Train Congress in Switzerland on Oct 6/7 2003.

October 2003 - Guardian Newspaper published an article about the 5AT Project by Jonathan Glancy, titled "Steam power on track for great renaissance" (a PDF copy of the article can be found here).

October 2003 - BBC Radio 4 broadcast an interview with Alan Fozard on the 06:20 Business Report of their Today program.

November 2003 - Heritage Railway magazine published a brief review of Alan Fozard's presentation at the Brienz congress. It also carried a commentary by David Morgan titled: "New Build - Its Day Must Come".

November 2003 - Steam Railway published a brief notice headed "World Support for Wardale 5AT".

December 2003 - Railway Magazine published another commentary by David Morgan with the somewhat corny and misleading title "World Unity Fires High-tech Steam Hope".