The LNER Encyclopedia

I've been looking around (unsuccessfully) for the names that the Class 91 locomotives used to carry when they were in the livery of the GNER; I used to live next to the ECML near Bensham so I saw them on a regular basis. The names were painted on in the same shade of yellow as the GNER logo. Names I remember are 'City of Newcastle;' 'City of Aberdeen;' 'City of York.' One of the driving trailers carried the name 'Duke of Edinburgh.' All the names disappeared when the GNER lost its franchise to National Express

From my records the Class 91/1's were named as follows whilst operated by GNER.

91101 City of London
91102 Durham Cathedral
91103 County of Lincolnshire
91104 Grantham
91105 County of Durham
91106 East Lothian
91107 Newark on Trent
91108 City of Leeds
91109 The Samaritans
91110 David Livingstone
91111
91112 County of Cambridgeshire
91113 County of North Yorksshire
91114 St. Mungo Cathedral
91115 Holyrood
91116 Strathclyde
91117 Cancer Research UK
91118 Bradford Film Festival
91119 County of Tyne & Wear
91120 Royal Armouries
91121 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
91122 Tam the Gun
91124 Reverend W Awdry
91125 Berwick upon Tweed
91126 York Minster
91127 Edinburgh Castle
91128 Peterborough Cathedral
91129 Queen Elizabeth II
91130 City of Newcastle
91131 County of Northumberland
91132 City of Durham

Nice to see a 91 carrying the same name as a NBR single but the single only got the Short form Berwick will post the pic when I find it. found the pic BERWICK and Glasgow were the NBRs last single wheelers I think.

The LBSCR was especially keen on naming its locos after places on its system. The practice is alleged to have caused confusion among some passengers, who thought they were destination boards. I hope no-one was too put out when their train didn't call at Berwick, whether in GNER or NBR days.

Kudu

kudu wrote:The LBSCR was especially keen on naming its locos after places on its system. The practice is alleged to have caused confusion among some passengers, who thought they were destination boards. I hope no-one was too put out when their train didn't call at Berwick, whether in GNER or NBR days.

Kudu

The NBR also named its locos after places on its system and sometimes changed the names when the locos were reallocated to different areas. NBR used painted names rather than plates. I cant remember which CME ordered the names to be removed.
One NBR practice slightly modified was adopted by the LNER. The NBR used destination boards on the top lamp bracket and when the Flying Scotsman started running non stop someone at Haymarket painted a board FLYING SCOTSMAN in the NBR style and placed it where destination boards were once fixed.