A1 Class 4472 Flying Scotsman entered traffic on 24 February, 1923, unnamed, as LNER No. 1472. Selected as the LNER’s presitige exhibit for the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, 1472 e...
60512 Steady Aim entered traffic on 24 August
1946 at Gateshead, moving on to Heaton shed on 8th September. On 14
December 1952 Steady Aim was allocated along with three ...
The first reference to 10000's designation as Class W1 was on 9 November
1926, but where the widely adopted name of 'Hush-Hush' came from is
disputed. It could be that the nickname arose in the la...
When the Isle of Wight Railway relinquished Terriers W9, W10, W12 and
W14 back to the mainland, W13 Carisbrooke continued as one of three
Terriers left on the Island and was fitted with motor gear...
6212 Duchess of Kent entered traffic on 21
October 1935, allocated to Camden shed and fitted with a riveted 9-ton
LMS tender. Oddly, out of all the Princess Royals built ...
6211 Queen Maud entered traffic on 21 October
1935 allocated to Camden shed and fitted with the riveted 9-ton LMS
tender, which it retained until the first heavy service ...
6211 Queen Maud entered traffic on 21 October
1935 allocated to Camden shed and fitted with the riveted 9-ton LMS
tender, which it retained until the first heavy service ...
The last of the class, 46257 City of Salford
entered traffic on 19 May 1948 at Camden shed straight into British
Railways' service, albeit that the livery was the lined L...
4003 'Lode Star' entered service with the Great Western Railway in
February 1907 and received the first of its modifications, the
superheated boiler, in May 1911. The second major alteration took ...
For 2022, the Hornby Dublo locomotive range has been extended to
include a BR, A4 Class, 4-6-2, 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' in the striking
BR Green livery. This new model along with other new addit...
Up to the outbreak of war in 1939, and during the war years, 10000 worked mainly on Kings Cross main line duties and with its power and smooth riding it was a popular engine with the LNER's drivers, t...
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2007 'Prince of Wales' is based on the 2001 ‘Cock O’ the North’,
featuring improved design from the A1 ‘Tornado’, including the boiler
and pony truck design.
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Built in August 1924, Gresley designed A1 No.
2564 was typical of the majority of the class in being named after a
racehorse, in this case 'Knight of the Thistle', winner...
One of the streamlined A4 Class created by Sir Nigel Gresley,
'Commonwealth of Australia' bore the original LNER number 4491, before
its change to No. 12, and 60012 under British Railways. Enterin...