The LNER Encyclopedia

Came across this this morning:
https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk ... s/co423003

Feast your eyes boys and girls.

G'Day Gents

Some very interesting pictures, Great find.

manna

Wonderful! Thank you.
Ref the photo of Mallard undergoing restoration in 1963 towards the end with the bloke in the grease top with the angle-grinder and fag. His name is Roy Platt sadly no longer with us. I met him when he’d moved to York carriage works and we did a bit on 60019 & 60532 at York shed around 1969. His stories of life at The Plant were amazing to this (then) 18 year old. Very funny bloke’s banter.
I bumped into him a few years later in a York city centre street and he had no idea who I was or what time we’d had together.
Sad, but still a bit of a hero
I think he returned to Donny and helped on 4472 & 4498 in the 80s

Lovely story, StaffordA4. Thank you.

A couple of things that stood out for me in those photos. One was that I never knew V2 Green Arrow originally had its nameplates on the centre splashers. Two, who the heck were Davina and Bryan (the names on a couple of A4's? )

Davina and Bryan , children of Charles Newton . Engine mocked up with wooden name plates and number their date of birth .

Lovely set of photos - very atmospheric.

giner wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 4:15 am Lovely story, StaffordA4. Thank you.

A couple of things that stood out for me in those photos. One was that I never knew V2 Green Arrow originally had its nameplates on the centre splashers. Two, who the heck were Davina and Bryan (the names on a couple of A4's? )

If you care to have a look at the link below, you'll find more of the background to the temporary name change:-

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10909

Thanks for the explanation, harvester. The liberties you can take when you're da boss, eh?

And thanks, 2392, for that link. I'll have a butcher's later.