"Sir Nigel Gresley" | LNER A4 'Pacific' 4498 | World's Fastest Steam Locomotive Class Back on Track

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Location : Smethwick Rolfe Street
Date : 26th April 2022

The historic Sir Nigel Gresley being taken from Severn Valley Railway to Crewe for ETCS installation after a major overhaul.

LNER Class A4 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley is a preserved British steam locomotive built by Doncaster Works for the London & North Eastern Railway in 1937. Mallard, another A4 locomotive has the world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a Steam Locomotive

No. 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley was the 100th Gresley Pacific built by the Great Northern Railway / London and North Eastern Railway. Built at Doncaster as works N°1863, the locomotive entered service in 1937 following a naming ceremony at Marylebone station on 26th November. The locomotive was mainly based at London King's Cross, with a spell at Grantham during World War II, and was briefly re-numbered as N°7 before becoming N°60007 when the LNER was merged into British Railways. On 3rd June 1956 Sir Nigel Gresley had the honour of hauling the Royal Train from King's Cross to York with H.M the Queen on board. The "Stephenson Locomotive Society Special" of the 23rd May 1959 was the first train in the UK with a booked or advertised schedule of over 100 m.p.h. and during that trip N°60007 set the official post-war speed record for steam traction of 112 mph.

The locomotive has a dedicated website - https://www.sirnigelgresley.org.uk/