Gresley A4 Pacifics

I have added 5 new photos of Gresley A4 in the pre nationalisation era
Starting here with
2509 Silver Link hauling the 'Silver Jubilee'
https://tinyurl.com/y2k2fb8a

Neil

 

I have added a photo of the great man himself inside the cab of 4489
Date or location unknown
https://tinyurl.com/yym6k4ye

Neil

 

I have added new photos to the collections of Gresley’s A4 in the B.R. era
This collection features 60001-60004
Including this photo in early B.R. livery not sure which colour
60001 Sir Ronald Matthews unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/y5rcxon9
New photos start here
https://tinyurl.com/y2amp99n

Neil

 

Number 61 is an interesting photo. It was said on the platform end at KX around 1960 that if you hung around long enough at the right times you would see all the A4s except one --- 60004--- which had not been to London for years. Is there any truth in that?

 

I have added new photos to the collections of Gresley’s A4 in the B.R. era
This collection features 60005-60007
This collection also features now preserved 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley
Including these 2 colour photos by Tony Gillett (with permission)
4498 Sir Nigel Gresley Wigan N.W. 28/8/67
https://tinyurl.com/y2dt8xfy
4498 Sir Nigel Gresley Crewe South August 1967
https://tinyurl.com/y3pdp4hd
Full collection of new photos start here with
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley arriving at Southall shed for railtour duty 23rd October 1965
https://tinyurl.com/yye2pkw6

Neil.

 

I have added new photos to the collections of Gresley’s A4 in the B.R. era
This collection features 60008-60012 And includes 3 now preserved locos
60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower at Potters Bar
https://tinyurl.com/dqqujujx
60009 Union of South Africa at York with the R.C.T.S. & S.L.S. The Jubilee Requiem 24th October 1964
https://tinyurl.com/ygpshtvy
60010 Dominion of Canada with 'The Elizabethan' at York
https://tinyurl.com/xrf73sgl

Neil.

 

99 / 101 = Aberdeen ?

 

I have added new photos to the collections of Gresley’s A4 in the B.R. era
This collection features 60013-60019 and includes now preserved 60019
60019 Bittern at Manchester Piccadilly with a William Deacon Bank Club A4 Tour 6th March 1966
https://tinyurl.com/1hqkqtg3
New photos start here with
60014 Silver Link
https://tinyurl.com/2tqfejfy

Neil.

 

I have added new photos to the collections of Gresley’s A4 in the B.R. era
This collection features 60020-60026 and includes now preserved 60022
Including these photos of 60026 at Crewe works donating parts to the overhaul of Sir Nigel Gresley photos by Tony Gillett
60026 Miles Beevor Crewe Works 7-8-67
https://tinyurl.com/6nb30naa
https://tinyurl.com/yjz82hlq
also rail tour duty for Mallard again by Tony Gillett
60022 Mallard at Blackpool North shed 30th September 1962 after working a ‘Northern Rubber Special’ (Tony Gillett)
https://tinyurl.com/13kp37f7
Full collection of new photos starts here with
60024 Kingfisher at Perth
https://tinyurl.com/1nmi68go

Neil.

 

I have added new photos to the collections of Gresley’s A4 in the B.R. era
This collection features 60027-60030
7 new photos starting here with
60027 Merlin looking a bit filthy on a Scottish Locomotive Preservation Fund rail tour 5th June 1965
https://tinyurl.com/3w7cusvc

Neil.

 

I have added new photos to the collections of Gresley’s A4 in the B.R. era
This collection features 60031-60034
Including this photo of
60034 Lord Faringdon with a freight service at Chaloners Whin
https://tinyurl.com/34pcmekh
60031 Golden Plover (complete with yellow stripe on cabside) at Perth
https://tinyurl.com/yjd8n6ap
https://tinyurl.com/4h2ur977
Full collection of 30 new photos starts here with
60031 Golden Plover colour photo
https://tinyurl.com/4s4h2bdx

Neil.

 

79/98 = Perth ?

85/98 = Overton ?

88/98 = Doncaster ?

95/98 = Grantham

 

68/72. 60027 is at Galashiels.

 

I have added 10 new photos to the collection of Gresley A4’s
This collection features the locos in the LNER era
Including this colour photo of
2509 Silver Link unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/2y9ck5b3
and the great man himself
https://tinyurl.com/pbwzkjhe
New photos start here with the original LNER numbers
2509 Silver Link
https://tinyurl.com/227u8ju8
in the 1946 renumbering
11 Empire of India at (I think) Newcastle
https://tinyurl.com/ye85u75d

Neil

 

91/98 = Kings Cross ?
92/98 = Grantham ?
98/98 = Newcastle - note Tyneside EMU in background

 

I have added 7 new photos of Gresley A4 Pacifics to the collection featuring 60001-60004
Including 3 photo’s starting here of
60004 William Whitelaw at Leeds with RCTS The Blythe & Tyne Rail Tour 19th September 1965
https://tinyurl.com/39her54p

New photos start here with
60001 Sir Ronald Matthews at York
https://tinyurl.com/23jm58cv

Neil

 

I have added some new photos to the collection of

The A4 Locomotive Society Ltd 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley on tour on the Southern June 1967

Including this one on Weymouth shed

4498 Sir Nigel Gresley Weymouth shed after working The A4 Locomotive Society Ltd.No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' on tour on the 'Southern' 3rd & 4th June 1967 (2)

https://tinyurl.com/5xuz3mr9


6 new photos start here

https://tinyurl.com/3zdjusax


Neil


https://tinyurl.com/5xuz3mr9

 

I have added new photos of Gresley A4 Pacifics to the collection featuring 60005-60007
All the new ones are of 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley
Including Rail tour photos
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley Doncaster with the LCGB The Mallard Commemorative Rail Tour 6th July 1963
https://tinyurl.com/wpxuf7
and at Kings Cross
https://tinyurl.com/33fcdu44
new photos start here
https://tinyurl.com/bkybb9yn

Neil

 

I have added new photos of Gresley A4 Pacifics to the collection featuring 60001-60004
60002 Sir Murrough Wilson unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/sy57jbvy
60004 William Whitelaw Haymarket shed 6th September 1959
https://tinyurl.com/rpjthtz8
60004 William Whitelaw unknown location 3 photos at unknown locations
https://tinyurl.com/3tyjn8x9
https://tinyurl.com/n3teebsz
https://tinyurl.com/rt2k865j

Neil

 

I have added new photos of Gresley A4 Pacifics to the collection featuring 60005-60007
Including preserved 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley at Doncaster with LCGB 'The Mallard Commemorative Rail Tour' 6th July 1963
https://tinyurl.com/r6wyy9s
New photos start here with
60005 Sir Charles Newton with a very mixed bag of stock unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/3v4fwufd

Neil