The LNER Class A4 is a class of streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotives designed by Nigel Gresley for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935. Their streamlined design gave them high-speed capability as well as making them instantly recognisable, and one of the class, 4468 Mallard, holds the record as the world's fastest steam locomotive.

On the 3rd July 1938, the LNER 4-6-2 A4 Class No. 4468 Mallard, driven by Joe Duddington and fired by Tommy Bray, on a stretch of the East Coast Main Line between Peterborough and Grantham took the World speed record at a measured 126 mph (202 kph), Its record as the world's fastest steam locomotive has never been beaten.

2 天之前 · Perhaps the pinnacle of steam powered express locomotion, the Gresley A4 Pacific class 4-6-2, conceived and built in the mid 1930s by Sir Nigel Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), was designed to compete with and beat the speed record of 114 mph set by William Stanier's London Midland and Scotland ...

The Gresley A4 Pacifics The LNER's Express Pacific designs were probably the most famous of the LNER locomotives. And of these Pacifics, the A4 is probably the most famous of all. Its distinctive streamlined casing has come to be a symbol of …

4 天之前 · Perhaps the pinnacle of steam powered express locomotion, the Gresley A4 Pacific class 4-6-2, conceived and built in the mid 1930s by Sir Nigel Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), was designed to compete with and beat the speed record of 114 mph set by William Stanier's London Midland and Scotland ...

LNER A4 4-6-2 No 4465 Guillemot at Kings Cross in c1938. Photo: G.R. Grigs / Rail Archive Stephenson

The A4 Pacific 4-6-2 designed by Sir Nigel Gresley Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway (1923-1941), was designed to compete with and beat the speed record of 114 mph set by Stanier's LMS Coronation Pacific.

2011年4月16日 · Perhaps the pinnacle of steam powered express locomotion, the Gresley A4 Pacific class 4-6-2, conceived and built in the mid 1930s by Sir Nigel Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), was designed to compete with and beat the speed record of 114 mph set by William Stanier's London Midland and Scotland ...

A4 4465 Guillemot. Haymarket shed.. renumbered to 20 in the short lived 1946 LNER scheme and finally 60020 in BR days.

2022年7月23日 · On the 3rd July 1938, the LNER 4-6-2 A4 Class No. 4468 ‘Mallard’, driven by Joe Duddington and fired by Tommy Bray, on a stretch of the East Coast Main Line between Peterborough and Grantham took the World speed record at a measured 126 mph (202 kph), Its record as the world's fastest steam locomotive has never been beaten.