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 design gave them high-speed capability as well as making them instantly recognisable, and one of the class, 4468 Mallard, holds the record as the world's fastest steam locomotive. Thirty-five of the class were built to haul express passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line route from London Kings Cross via York to Newcastle, and later via Newcastle to Edinburgh, Scotland. They remained in service on the East Coast Main Line until the early 1960s when they were replaced by Deltic diesel locomotives; they themselves proving to be worthy successors to the A4s.[2] Several A4s saw out their remaining days until 1966 in Scotland, particularly on the Aberdeen – Glasgow express trains, for which they were used to improve the timing from 3.5 to 3 hours.
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The LNERClassA4 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...
LNERClassA4 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...
60009 Union of South Africa is a LNERClassA4 steam locomotive built at Doncaster Works on 16 April 1937. It is one of six surviving A4s. Its mainline...
4464 Bittern is a London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) ClassA4 steam locomotive. Built for the LNER and completed on 18 December 1937 at Doncaster Works...
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley is an LNERClassA4 4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built to a design of Sir Nigel Gresley in 1937 at Doncaster Works for operation...
LNERClassA4 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...
LNERClassA4 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...
LNERClassA4 No. 4469 Sir Ralph Wedgwood was an A4class locomotive of the LNER. Built at Doncaster Works, it was originally named Gadwall, being renamed...
LNERClassA4 60034 Lord Faringdon (or formerly 4903 Peregrine as it was before being renumbered under British Railways) was one of 35 Doncaster built...
Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNERClass A1 and LNERClassA4 4-6-2 Pacific...
external design modified to resemble the Silver Link locomotives. (see LNERClassA4). The locomotive weight was reduced to 107 long tons 3 cwt (240,000 lb...
1852 German steam locomotive model LNERClassA4, a class of steam locomotives, including the famous Mallard PRR A4, an American Pennsylvania Railroad...
LNER Peppercorn Class A2 No. 60532 Blue Peter is a 4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built in 1948 at Doncaster Works to a design by Arthur Peppercorn...
record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex LNERClassA4. It was directed by Tony Thompson, with a tongue-in-cheek poetic commentary...
the LNERClassA4 2509 Silver Link (112.5 mph, September 1935), the LMS Coronation Class 6220 Coronation (114 mph, June 1937) and the LNERClassA4 4468...
produced live steam examples, re-using the chassis from the initial LNERClassA4 models. Trix and later Liliput made both loco drive and tender drive...
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...
still unbroken, of 126 miles per hour (203 kilometres per hour) by LNERClassA4 4468 Mallard. In the United States, larger loading gauges allowed the...
North Eastern Railway (LNER) operated various classes steam locomotives with a 4-6-2 (or pacific) wheel arrangement. The LNER operated more pacifics than...
per hour (190 km/h). Such speeds would have put the class A in contention with the LNERClassA4 and German BR 05 for the title of fastest steam locomotive...
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)...
The North Eastern Railway (NER) Class K classified as Class Y8 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a class of 0-4-0T steam locomotives designed...
Zephyr, a passenger train "Silver streak" trainspotter's nickname for LNERClassA4 for the original silver color scheme The Silver Streak, a 1934 film...
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