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3 unusual facts about Gresley


Gresley

Harold Gresley, (1892-1967), son of Frank, also a British painter

Sir Nigel Gresley, 6th Baronet, (c1727-1787), an English land-owner, mine-owner and builder

Church Gresley, village and former civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England


Booster engine

In Great Britain, the Gresley P1 2-8-2 locomotives for the London and North Eastern Railway, of which only two were built, were equipped with booster units.

Francis Le Gresley

Le Gresley first stood for election in June 2010, in a by-election for one seat, against eight other candidates including former-Senator Stuart Syvret, and Deputy Geoff Southern.

Francis du Heaume Le Gresley, MBE is a member of the States of Jersey since he was first elected in the Jersey by-election of 2010.

Gresley Priory

In 1363, Sir John de Gresley, gave the priory properties and land at Heathcote, Church Gresley, Castle Gresley, and Lullington, which were valued at £10 per annum; these properties and land would then pass to the priory fully on the death of their tenants.

Henri François Xavier Gresley

Henri François Xavier Gresley (9 February 1819, Wassy – 2 May 1890, Paris) was a French Minister of War.

LNER Class P1

Due to the reduction of heavy freight trains after the Second World War, both engines were withdrawn by Edward Thompson and scrapped in July 1945, the first Gresley locomotives to be withdrawn and scrapped by intention.

Nigel Abbott

Nigel Drury Gresley Abbott AM (29 March 1920 – 13 November 2011) was an Australian politician.

Nigel Gresley

Gresley developed an interest in breeding wild birds and ducks in the moat; intriguingly, among the species were Mallard ducks.

Oliver Bulleid

The Grouping in 1923 of Britain's financially troubled railways saw the GNR subsumed into the new London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), and Gresley was appointed the CME.

Sir Thomas Gresley, 10th Baronet

Gresley was born at Netherseal, (then in) Leicestershire, the son of Rev. Sir William Nigel Gresley, 9th Baronet and his wife Georgina Anne Reid.

The Royal Scotsman

Pullman car Raven, acquired at the same time as the other Pullman cars, was converted in 1992 as a replacement for the Gresley car that formed the kitchen.


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