Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: LNER

Garter Blue liveried LNER A4 4-6-2 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley on the A4 locomotive Society's Salopian steam special from Shrewsbury to Newport made a water stop at Hereford. The driver or support crew member is checking the oil pots.

Ex-LNER Gresley A4 4-6-2 60009 Union of South Africa pulling away from Barrow-on-Soar with RTC's Yorkshireman railtour, 1Z35 06.36 Ealing Broadway to York.

On the West Highland line & the 10.15 Jacobite crosses the River Lochy as it departs Fort William for Mallaig, headed by LNER/NELPG locomotive K1 2-6-0 62005, the foothills of Ben Nevis in the background. I arrived early at the location in full sunlight but of course that didn't last long and I stood for 20 minutes in the driving rain. Fortunately it relented shortly before the train turned up, result happiness.

Visiting LNER B12/3 4-6-0 8572 bursts out from under the Great Central Road overbridge with the 09.45 departure for Leicester during the Winter Gala.

With 12 coaches on, LNER Gresley A3 4-6-2 60103 Flying Scotsman accelerates away from Syston North Junction, beyond the bridge in the right distance, with the RTC Yorkshireman from London King's Cross to York. Not exactly the conventional route but with 4 tracks and no wires the MML does a passable impression of the ECML in the 1960s.

LNER A3 4472 (60103) runs eastwards through Sheffield Victoria station light engine to wait for the stock of its special train to arrive. It's running with one tender so the engine number is nowhere to be seen, just a LNER crest on the cab-side and the letters LNER on the tender-side. The 1500v DC overhead wires are evidence that the Woodhead route is still open & this ex-Great Central Railway main line is still in business. The station and its passenger services only lasted until January 1970 however.

In honour of Flying Scotsman's rebirth (after a ridiculous £4.2 million rebuild & 10 years of waiting) this is one I took earlier. This was one of the early Open Days - the second one in fact, the first was in October 1968 - at the Great Western Railway shed at Tyseley. Flying Scotsman arrives from the main line with a special train.

At first glance it looks like A1 Pacific 60163 Tornado is heading off to Leicester but the second arm down on the totem pole reveals that it is actually backing down into Platform 2 at Loughborough station. This brand new built locomotive was still running-in and carried a grey undercoat livery.

After being coaled British Railways Standard 9F 2-10-0 92214 slowly pulls forward with cylinder taps open prior to going off shed at Loughborough.

A scene which covers over a hundred years of Pennine railway construction history from the opening of the first 3-mile long Woodhead tunnel (right) in 1845 by the MS&LR (later Great Central) to the opening of the new double bore tunnel in 1954 by British Railways (left). Sadly all of it is proper history now since this former important main line closed in 1981.

After running from Loughborough to Swithland Up Loop double headed; Peckett 'Yorktown' class 0-4-0ST "Teddy" and NER Y7 0-4-0T 1310 with two coaches we came off to let 1310 run round. Another shot taken from the headshunt as we prepared to operate passenger trains on the new Mountsorrel Branch.

New-build LNER A1 pacific 60163 Tornado whistles up as it drops down into the ex-SER side of Victoria station with the returning Belmont British Pullman, an afternoon dining special which ran out to Guildford from Victoria and back via East Croydon.

New-build LNER A1 4-6-2 60163 Tornado on the turntable inside Barrow Hill roundhouse. I was the rostered fireman on this day.

LNER A1 4-6-2 60163 Tornado at the end of the day

ex-LNWR Webb 0-6-2T Coal Tank 1054 outside the roundhouse at Barrow Hill shed.

Pounding up the colliery branch on 60163 Tornado.

Footplate conversation

Climbing Stoke Bank on the East Coast Main Line on British Railways Standard 4-6-2 70013 Oliver Cromwell. We were running engine & coach from Southall shed to Barnetby on the GCR in Lincolnshire prior to pulling The Cheshireman railtour from Cleethorpes to Chester the next day.