The LNER Class A4 is a class of streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed by Nigel Gresley for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935. Their streamlined...
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LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard is a 4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built in 1938 for operation on the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster...
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60009 Union of South Africa is a LNER Class A4 steam locomotive built at Doncaster Works on 16 April 1937. It is one of six surviving A4s. Its mainline...
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60007 Sir Nigel Gresley is an LNER Class A4 4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built to a design of Sir Nigel Gresley in 1937 at Doncaster Works for operation...
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4464 Bittern is a London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class A4 steam locomotive. Built for the LNER and completed on 18 December 1937 at Doncaster Works...
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LNER Class A4 4902 Seagull (or 60033 Seagull, as it was renumbered under British Railways) was one of 35 Doncaster built LNER Class A4 Gresley Pacific...
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60008 Dwight D Eisenhower is an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, the United States General of the Army. Built for the...
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LNER Class A4 4483 Kingfisher was a Class A4 steam locomotive of the London and North Eastern Railway. Kingfisher was built at Doncaster Works in 1936...
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LNER Class A4 No. 4469 Sir Ralph Wedgwood was an A4 class locomotive of the LNER. Built at Doncaster Works, it was originally named Gadwall, being renamed...
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LNER Class A4 steam locomotive. It is a 4-6-2 locomotive built to the same design by Sir Nigel Gresley as the more famous Mallard. There were 35 A4 locomotives...
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LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon (or formerly 4903 Peregrine as it was before being renumbered under British Railways) was one of 35 Doncaster built...
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LNER Class A4 2509 Silver Link was a 4-6-2 "Pacific" built in 1935 for the London and North Eastern Railway. It was the first of the Streamlined Class...
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Nigel Gresley (section LNER)
Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNER Class A1 and LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific...
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1852 German steam locomotive model LNER Class A4, a class of steam locomotives, including the famous Mallard PRR A4, an American Pennsylvania Railroad...
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external design modified to resemble the Silver Link locomotives. (see LNER Class A4). The locomotive weight was reduced to 107 long tons 3 cwt (240,000 lb...
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record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex LNER Class A4. It was directed by Tony Thompson, with a tongue-in-cheek poetic commentary...
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produced live steam examples, re-using the chassis from the initial LNER Class A4 models. Trix and later Liliput made both loco drive and tender drive...
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the LNER Class A4 2509 Silver Link (112.5 mph, September 1935), the LMS Coronation Class 6220 Coronation (114 mph, June 1937) and the LNER Class A4 4468...
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LNER Peppercorn Class A1 No. 60163 Tornado is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive completed in 2008 to an original design by Arthur Peppercorn. It is the first new...
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The LNER Class A1/1 consisted of a single 4-6-2 "Pacific" express passenger locomotive rebuilt in 1945 from an A1 class locomotive, by Edward Thompson...
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Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class C1 is a type of 4-4-2 steam locomotive. One, ex GNR 251 (later LNER 3251 in 1924, and LNER 2800 in 1946), survives in...
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up direction 27 May, hauled by LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon in the down direction 28 May, hauled by LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon in the up...
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Steam locomotive (section Most-manufactured classes)
kilometres per hour) by LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard, however there are long-standing claims that the Pennsylvania Railroad class S1 achieved speeds upwards...
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in 00 scale after the war. In 2008, a special commemorative model of LNER Class A4 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley was produced, in period packaging, to celebrate...
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exceptions. Some ex-LNER locomotives have numbers based on their LNER pre-1946 numbers, these being Class A3 Flying Scotsman (4472), Class A4s Mallard (4468)...
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class to resemble British passenger express Pacifics, with a nose rounded like the LMS Coronation Class and valancing styled like the LNER Class A4....
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North Eastern Railway (LNER) operated various classes steam locomotives with a 4-6-2 (or pacific) wheel arrangement. The LNER operated more pacifics than...
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of South Africa, a preserved British LNER Class A4 steam locomotive 45571 South Africa, a British LMS Jubilee Class locomotive South African (disambiguation)...
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the Buxworth Steam Group collection. In 1997, Marchington purchased LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern from the family of Geoff Drury, which he also based at...
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per hour (190 km/h). Such speeds would have put the class A in contention with the LNER Class A4 and German BR 05 for the title of fastest steam locomotive...
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